Mattathias

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the gift of the Lord
(same as Matthias, Mattithiah)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


MATTATHIAS.—1. A Jew, who had married a foreign wife (1Es_9:33); called in Ezr_10:33 Mattattah. 2. One of the men who stood at the right hand of Ezra during the reading of the Law (1Es_9:48); in Neh_8:4 Mattithiah. 3. The father of the five Maccabæan brothers (1Ma_2:1; 1Ma_2:14; 1Ma_2:16 f., 1Ma_2:24; 1Ma_2:27; 1Ma_2:39; 1Ma_2:45; 1Ma_2:48; 1Ma_14:29). See Maccabees, § 1. 4. A captain in the army of Jonathan the Maccabæan (1Ma_11:70). 5. A son of Simon the high priest, who was murdered, together with his father and brother Judas, at a banquet at Dok, by Ptolemy the son of Abubus (1Ma_16:14-16). 6. One of three envoys sent by Nicanor to treat with Judas Maccabæus (2Ma_14:19). 7. 8. Two ancestors of Jesus (Luk_3:25-26).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


1. Luk_3:25.
2. Luk_3:26.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Mattathi'as. (gift of Jehovah). The Greek form of Mattathiah.
1. Son of Amos, in the genealogy of Christ. Luk_3:25. (B.C. after 406).
2. Son of Semei. Luk_3:26.
3. The father of the Maccabees. (B.C. 168 and previous).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


mat-a-thı̄?as (Ματταθίας, Mattathı́as). The persons of this name in the Apocrypha are:
(1) Mattathias the father of the Maccabees. See ASMONEANS; MACCABEES.
(2) One of the 7 who stood on Ezra's right hand as he read the law (1 Esdras 9:43) = ?Mattithiah? of Neh_8:4.
(3) The son - probably the youngest (compare 1 Macc 16:2) - of Simon the Maccabean, treacherously murdered along with his father and his brother Judas by his brother-in-law Ptolemy, son of Abubus in the stronghold of Dok near Jericho in the 177th Seleucid - 136-135 BC (1 Macc 16:14).
(4) Son of Absalom, one of the two ?captains of the forces? who in the campaign against Demetrius in the plain of HaZor gallantly supported Judas, enabling the latter to turn an impending defeat into a great victory (1 Macc 11:70).
(5) One of the three envoys sent by Nicanor to treat with Judas in 161 BC (2 Macc 14:19). No names of envoys are given in the account of 1 Macc 7:27 ff.
(6) One of the sons of Asom who put away his ?strange wife? (1 Esdras 9:33) = the King James Version ?Matthias? = ?Mattattah? of Ezr_10:33.
In addition to these two of this name are mentioned in the New Testament:
(7) Luk_3:25, ?son of Amos.?
(8) Luk_3:26, ?son of Semein.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Mattathias
(Ματταθίας), the Greek form of MATTATHIAH SEE MATTATHIAH (q.v.), and standing for several persons in the Apocrypha and New Test.
1. One who supported Ezra in reading the law (1Es_9:43), the MATTITHIAH of Neh_8:4.
2. The father of the Maccabmean brothers (1Ma_2:1; 1Ma_2:14; 1Ma_2:16-17; 1Ma_2:19; 1Ma_2:24; 1Ma_2:27; 1Ma_2:39; 1Ma_2:45; 1Ma_2:49; 1Ma_14:29). SEE MACCABEE.
3. The son of Absalom and brother of the Maccabean Jonathan, the high- priest (1Ma_11:70; 1Ma_13:11). In the battle fought by the latter with the forces of Demetrius on the plain of Nasor (the old Hazor), his two generals Mattathias and Judas alone stood by him when his army was seized with a panic and fled, and with their assistance the fortunes of the day were restored.
4. The son of Simon Maccabueus, who was treacherously murdered, together with his father and brother, in the fortress of Docus, by Ptolemueus, the son of Abubus (1Ma_16:14). SEE MACCABEE.
5. One of the three envoys sent by Nicanor to treat with Judas Maccabueus (2Ma_14:19). SEE MACCABEE.
6. Son of Amos, in the genealogy of Jesus Christ (Luk_3:25). 7. Son of Semei, in the same catalogue (Luk_3:26). For both these last, SEE MATTITHIAH, 5, 6.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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