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Mattan

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: M

By: James P. Boyd

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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(gift). (1) A priest of Baal (2 Kings 11:18¹⁸And 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. (2 Kings 11:18)). (2) Father of Shephatiah (Jer. 38:1¹Then 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, (Jeremiah 38:1)).

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