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Urijah

man standing with Ezra

One of the leaders who stood at Ezra's right hand when Ezra publicly read the Law to the assembled people in Jerusalem, as recorded in Nehemiah 8.

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Urijah is named in 8 as one of the leaders who stood on 's right hand on the wooden platform from which Ezra read the Book of the Law before the assembled people of . The public reading was a landmark event in the restoration community's renewal of covenant fidelity. Urijah's position beside Ezra indicates he was a respected figure, though no further information about him is given in the text.

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