Today’s passage tells us about an obscure prophet named Uriah. The notes in my study Bible report that his name does not appear anywhere else in the Old Testament. While there are only four verses that deal with his life as a prophet, we glean much about his call of God. Uriah was a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord. There’s no question of his obedience to the God of Israel. The text also reports how he prophesied: against Jerusalem and Judah “as Jeremiah did” (v. 20b). And how did Jeremiah prophesy? Here is an example: “…the Lord Almighty says, ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets’” (26:18). Like Jeremiah, Uriah was bold in his prophecy. We also discover that Uriah was human. When he caught word that the King was after his life, he feared for his life and fled to Egypt. Sadly, the king sent a band of men down to Egypt, found Uriah, and brought him back to the king, who had him executed and buried with the common people. Uriah met a sad, cruel death because of his obedience to the God of Israel.  Uriah was very much like Jeremiah. Yet their stories ended up very different. Uriah has four verses in the entire Old Testament, Jeremiah has two books. Jeremiah was able to clever in his negotiations with authorities while Uriah met death under the sword of the king. While we see the contrasts in the lives of these two men, they both served with boldness in the name of their Lord.  May we be so bold!  Blessings, Pastor Bob