Mattan (ISBE)

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mat´an ( מתּן , mattān , "a gift"): (1) A priest in the house of Baal, slain by Jehoiada before Baal's altar (2 Kings 11:18; 2 Chronicles 23:17 ). (2) The father of Shephatiah a contemporary and persecutor of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1 ), one of those who put Jeremiah into Malechiah's dungeon (Jeremiah 38:6 ).

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• part_of source-manifest/isbe — ISBE (PD)