Mattaniah

Mattaniah
   Gift of Jehovah.
   1) A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple singers (1 Chr. 25:4, 16).
   2) A Levite who assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation under Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:13).
   3) The original name of Zedekiah (q.v.), the last of the kings of Judah (2 Kings 24:17). He was the third son of Josiah, who fell at Megiddo. He succeeded his nephew Jehoiakin.

Easton's Bible Dictionary. . 1897.

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