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MATTANIAH

(Heb. mattanyâ, mattanyā)

A common Hebrew name (“Gift of Yah[weh]”), attested in the Lachish Letters (1:5) and in seal bullae from the time of Jeremiah (cf. also the short form Mattan without the theophoric element).

1. The last king of Judah (ca. 597-596 b.c.e.), enthroned to replace his nephew Jehoiachin by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who changed his name to Zedekiah (2 Kgs. 24:17); son of Josiah.

2. One of 14 sons of Heman whom David purportedly set apart for musical service in the planned temple (1 Chr. 25:4, 16).

3. An Asaphite Levite and great-great-grandfather of Jahaziel, court prophet for Jehoshaphat (2 Chr. 20:14).

4. A Levite at the time of Hezekiah commissioned to help reconsecrate the temple (2 Chr. 29:13).

5.-8. Four postexilic Israelites, each of whom married foreign wives and divorced them as directed by Ezra: they were from the clans of Elam (Ezra 10:26), Zattu (v. 27), Pahath-moab (v. 30), and Bani (v. 37).

9. The son of Mica(iah), an Asaphite levitical musical leader, who purportedly swelled Jerusalem’s population by moving there (Neh. 11:17). The leader of the temple choir at 1 Chr. 9:15; Neh.12:8, 25 is apparently the same person, although there he is from the time of Zerubbabel. His great-grandson Uzzi was overseer of the Levites (Neh. 11:22); another great-grandson Zechariah was a precentor at the dedication of the wall (12:35).

10. Grandfather of Hanan ben Zaccur whom Nehemiah entrusted with assisting the new treasurers over the storehouses, Shelemiah and Zadok (Neh. 13:13).

Bibliography. W. E. Aufrecht, “Genealogy and History in Ancient Israel,” in Ascribe to the Lord, ed. L. E. Eslinger and G. Taylor. JSOTSup 67 (Sheffield, 1988), 205-35; N. Avigad, Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Jeremiah (Jerusalem, 1986).

Paul J. Kissling







Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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