Descendant of Bani, who divorced his foreign wife.
Mattaniah
Named in 1 verse of Ezra, first in Ezra 10:37.
מַתַּנְיָ֫הוּMattaniah
The name means “gift, or hope, of the Lord.” Hitchcock's Bible Names, 1869
About Mattaniah Written by AI
Mattaniah was a man from the family of Bani who had married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra. As part of Ezra's reforms to purify the Jewish community after their return from Babylonian exile, Mattaniah and others who had married foreign wives were required to divorce them (Ezra 10:37). This action was taken to ensure that the Israelites remained faithful to the Lord and did not fall into the same sins that had led to their exile.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897
This entry is on the name Mattaniah, and may cover more than one person or place by that name.
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).
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(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.
M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), public domain, from CrossWire. Shown as written; its Scripture quotes are from older translations.
Where the Bible names him
- Ezra 10:37
Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu.
From STEPBible's TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0): names, family, references and the AI written article. Verse text is the BSB.