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Mattaniah

Mattaniah gift of Jehovah. (1.) A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple singers (1Chr 25:4, 16). (2.) A Levite who assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation under Hezekiah (2Ch...

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Mattaniah gift of Jehovah. (1.) A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple singers (1Chr 25:4, 16).

(2.) A Levite who assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation under Hezekiah (2Chr 29:13).

(3.) The original name of Zedekiah (q.v.), the last of the kings of Judah (2Kings 24:17). He was the third son of Josiah, who fell at Megiddo. He succeeded his nephew Jehoiakin.

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