Mattaniah
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mat-a-nī´a (מתּניהוּ, mattanyāhū, “gift of Yah,” or "gift of YHWH"):
(1) King Zedekiah's original name, but changed by Nebuchadnezzar when he made him king over Judah instead of his nephew Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:17). He was the third son of Josiah, who fell at Megiddo. He succeeded his nephew Jehoiakin and was the last of the kings of Judah.
(2) A descendant of Asaph (1 Chronicles 9:15), leader of the temple choir (Nehemiah 11:17; Nehemiah 12:8). Mentioned among the “porters,” keepers of “the storehouses of the gates” (Nehemiah 12:25), and again in Nehemiah 12:35 as among the “priests' sons with trumpets.”
(3) May be the same as (2), though in 2 Chronicles 20:14 he is mentioned as an ancestor of that Jahaziel whose inspired words in the midst of the congregation encouraged Jehoshaphat to withstand the invasion of Moab, Ammon and Seir (2 Chronicles 20:14 ff).
(4-7) Four others who had foreign wives,
- (a) the Matthanias of 1 Esdras 9:27 (Ezra 10:26);
- (b) the Othonias of 1 Esdras 9:28 (Ezra 10:27);
- (c) the Matthanias of 1 Esdras 9:31 (Ezra 10:30);
- (d) the fourth of these in 1 Esdras 9:34 the King James Version has had his name blended into that of Mattenai, and the two appear as the composite name Mamnitanemus (Ezra 10:37). He is a son of Bani.
(8) A Levite, father of Zaccur, ancestor of Hanan the under-treasurer of the Levitical offerings under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:13).
(9) A Levite, one of the sons of Heman the singer, whose office it was to blow the horns in the temple-service as David had appointed it (1 Chronicles 25:4, 1 Chronicles 25:5). He was the chief of the ninth class of temple singers, i.e. the head of the 9th division of the 12 Levites (1 Chronicles 25:16), who were proficient in the Songs of YHWH (1 Chronicles 25:7).
(10) A Levite, one of the sons of Asaph who helped Hezekiah in the fulfilling of his vow to cleanse the house of the Lord (2 Chronicles 29:13). He assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation under Hezekiah.
