Mattaniah: Gift of Jehovah.1. A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple
singers
(1 Chronicles 25:4,16)
2. A Levite who assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation
under Hezekiah
(2 Chronicles 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.
