Mattan
2 lines · 3 passages
Mattan in the Bible Dictionary
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1. A priest of Baal killed in the idol’s temple at Jerusalem
2 Kgs 11:18; 2 Chr 23:17
18 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.
2 Kings 11:1817 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.
2 Chronicles 23:17 -
2. Father of Shephatiah
Jer 38:1
1 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,
Jeremiah 38:1
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
