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Where does the name 'Urijah' come from?

I have been meaning to do this post for a while now but decided the fan post section is the best for it.

Urijah Faber is considered the face of the WEC. He is good looking, popular and an extremely successful fighter. Though his nickname is the 'California Kid' Faber's first name however foreign it sounds is not some hippie, surfer name but in fact has biblical origins. 

The first presence of Urijah or Uriah is in Samuel 2 and the story of King David, yes the same David who slew Goliath.

The eleventh chapter of Samuel 2 explains the story of Uriah and David. It begins with King David lusting after a woman name Bathsheba who is married to Uriah the Hittite a shield bearer (soldier) for Joab (an Israelite general). David takes (read as has sex) Bathsheba and she becomes pregnant. So David calls Uriah home and questions him and orders him to his house because David wants Uriah to sleep with his wife so he won't be embarrassed and have to claim the bastard. Uriah, ever the good soldier, doesn't leave his lords house and David sends hm back to the front. 

David then writes a letter to Joab saying, "Place Uriah up front, where the fighting is fierce. Then pull back and leave him to be struck down dead." Once again this is the same David we often lionize. 

To wrap up the story Uriah dies and David takes his wife into his household making her his wife (one of many) and she bears him a son. 

The story of the lustful king is something we often see in contemporary stories. The latest rendition of The Man in the Iron Mask featured a similar storyline.

Theologically this fits nicely into a Deuteronomic perspective. The classic perspective that centers around this premise; if you live in god's law then good things happen to you and if you sin or break god's law bad things happen to you. After David's sin bad things happen to him and his kingdom until he repents, which then puts him in God's favor and good things start happening again. Theologically such a perspective is somewhat silly, after all bad things happen to good people all the time. The book of Job is a principle source for debunking such a perspective. 

The name Urijah comes from the classic Jewish name Uriah. 

But enough about theology and biblical origins on to the main event!

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Mike Brown kind of King David'd Uriah's belt

"the spirit of your average dumbass with more overblown rhetoric" OR "the self-appointed savior of MMA"

by Kid Nate on Jun 14, 2009 6:50 PM EDT reply actions  

lol

watchkalibrun.com

by Zak Woods on Jun 14, 2009 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

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