23. Fetched forth Urijah. For earlier instances of the martyrdom of prophets, see 1 Kings 19:10, 14; 2 Chron. 24:19-22. According to Jewish tradition Isaiah was “sawn asunder” by Manasseh (see Heb. 11:37; , Supplementary Material, on Isa. 1:1). Urijah was treated most shamefully. “His dead body” was denied burial with his fathers, and was “cast ââ¬Â¦ into the graves of the common people” in the Kidron Valley. Later the king who committed this dishonor was himself “buried with the burial of an ass,” without customary funeral honors or mourning (Jer. 22:18, 19).