Mattan
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal,
and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in
pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house
of the LORD....
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Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it
down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew
Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars....
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Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of
Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all
the people, saying,...
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Mattan or Matthan (Hebrew: מַתָּן, today written mostly Matan) is
a Hebrew name, mostly for boys, coming from the word 'gift'
and literally means "giving". It is part of the title of the
Jewish holiday of Shavuot that is also known as "Z'man Mattan
Torah" meaning the "time [of the] giving [of the] Torah."
A Biblical reference for a Mattan as a...
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mat'-an (mattan, "a gift"):
(1) A priest in the house of Baal, slain by Jehoiada before
Baal's altar (2 Ki 11:18; 2 Ch 23:17).
(2) The father of Shephatiah a contemporary and persecutor of
Jeremiah (Jer 38:1), one of those who put Jeremiah into
Malechiah's dungeon (38:6)....
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-1. A priest of Baal killed in the idol's temple at Jerusalem
2Ki 11:18; 2Ch 23:17
-2. Father of Shephatiah
Jer 38:1...
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(a gift).
1. The priest of Baal slain before his altars in the
idol temple at Jerusalem. 2Ki 11:18; 2Ch 23:17 He probably
accompanied Athalia from Samaria.
2. The father of Shephatiah. Jer 38:1...
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gift. (1.) A priest of Baal, slain before his altar during the
reformation under Jehoiada (2 Kings 11:18).
(2.) The son of Eleazar, and father of Jacob, who was
the
father of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary
(Matt. 1:15).
(3.) The father of Shephatiah (Jer. 38:1)....
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1. Baal's priest slain by Jehoiada "before the altars
"judicially, at the reformation after Athaliah's idolatrous
reign (2 Kings 11:18; 2 Chronicles 23:17). She probably had
brought him from Samaria to introduce the Baal worship of her
father Ahab into the court of Jehoram her husband,
Jehoshaphat's son (2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Chronicles 21:13)....
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