Mattaniah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Mattaniah, gift, or hope, of the Lord