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mattaniah |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Mattaniah gift of Jehovah. (1.) A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple singers (1 Chr. 25:4, 16). (2.) A Levite who assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation under Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:13). (3.) The original name of Zedekiah (q.v.), the last of the kings of Judah (2 Kings 24:17). He was the third son of Josiah, who fell at Megiddo. He succeeded his nephew Jehoiakin. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Mattaniah, gift, or hope, of the Lord
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