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Mattan mat'-an (mattan, "a gift"): (1) A priest in the house of Baal, slain by Jehoiada before Baal's altar (2Ki 11:18, 2Ch 23:17). (2) The father of Shephatiah a contemporary and persecutor of Jeremiah (Jer 3...

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Mattan mat'-an (mattan, "a gift"):

(1) A priest in the house of Baal, slain by Jehoiada before Baal's altar (2Ki 11:18, 2Ch 23:17).

(2) The father of Shephatiah a contemporary and persecutor of Jeremiah (Jer 38:1), one of those who put Jeremiah into Malechiah's dungeon (38:6).

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