Uriah the Hittite, known for his unwavering loyalty and integrity, was a valiant soldier in King David’s army whose tragic death, orchestrated by David to conceal his own sin, serves as a powerful lesson on the consequences of moral failure and the necessity of justice.
Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, is notorious for ordering the beheading of John the Baptist at the behest of Herodias’s daughter, Salome, and played a part in the trial of Jesus before being exiled to Gaul.
The Book of Amos remains relevant today as a call to social responsibility and justice within religious practice.