Mattithiah

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Shallum, a Korahite: he had charge of the 'things that were made in the pans.'  1 Chronicles 9:31 .

2. Levite, musician and door-keeper in the time of David.   1 Chronicles 15:18,21;  1 Chronicles 16:5 .

3. Son of Jeduthun, and one appointed to the service of song.   1 Chronicles 25:3,21 .

4. One who had married a strange wife.   Ezra 10:43 .

5. One who stood beside Ezra when he read the law.   Nehemiah 8:4 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Mattithiah. 1. One of the sons of Nebo who had married a foreign wife (  Ezra 10:43 ); called in 1Es 9:35 Mazitias . 2. A Korahite Levite (  1 Chronicles 9:31 ). 3. A Levite of the guild of Jeduthun (  1 Chronicles 15:18;   1 Chronicles 15:21;   1 Chronicles 25:3;   1 Chronicles 25:21 ). 4. An Asaphite Levite (  1 Chronicles 16:5 ). 5. See Mattathias , No. 2.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The son of Amos, and father of Joseph, in the genealogy of our Lord ( Luke 3:25 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Mattithiah'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/m/mattithiah.html. 1897.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1.  1 Chronicles 9:31.

2.  1 Chronicles 15:18;  1 Chronicles 15:21;  1 Chronicles 16:5;  1 Chronicles 25:3;  1 Chronicles 25:21.

3.  Ezra 10:48.

4.  Nehemiah 8:4.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 15:21 1 Chronicles 25:21 1 Chronicles 16:5 2 1 Chronicles 9:31 3 Ezra 10:43 4 Nehemiah 8:4

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Mattithyah', מִתַּתְיָה, gift of Jehovah, compare θεόδοτος, Theodore; also in the prolonged form Mattithya'hu, מִתַּתְיָהוּ ,  1 Chronicles 15:18;  1 Chronicles 15:21;  1 Chronicles 25:3;  1 Chronicles 25:21; Sept. Ματταθίας, but in  Ezra 10:43 Μαθθαθίας v. r. Ματθανίας ; so also Ματταθίας ,  1 Maccabees 2:1;  Luke 3:25-26) the name of three or four men in the Old Test. and of one or two (Auth. Vers. "Mattathias") in the New. (See Mattathah); (See Matthew); (See Matthias), etc.; and especially (See Mattathias).

1. One of the sons of the Levite Jeduthun, appointed by David chief of the fourteenth section of the Temple musicians ( 1 Chronicles 25:3;  1 Chronicles 25:21). B.C. 1014. He is probably the same with one of the Levitical wardens who were assigned to the performance of the sacred anthems on the removal of the sacred ark to Jerusalem ( 1 Chronicles 15:18;  1 Chronicles 15:21;  1 Chronicles 16:5). B.C. cir. 1043.

2. An Israelite of the "sons" (residents) of Nebo, who divorced his Gentile wife after the Babylonian exile ( Ezra 10:43). B.C. 459. He was possibly identical with No. 4.

3. The eldest son of Shallum, a Levite of the family of Korah, who had charge of the baked offerings of the Temple on the re-establishment after the exile ( 1 Chronicles 9:31). B.C. cir. 440.

4. One of those (apparently chief Israelites) who supported Ezra on the right hand while reading the law to the people after the captivity ( Nehemiah 8:4). B.C. cir. 410.

5. A person named in  Luke 3:26 as the son of Semei, among the maternal ancestors of Jesus; but as no such name appears in the parallel passages of the Old Test., and would here unduly protract the interval limited by other intimations of the generations, it is probably interpolated from No. 6. (See Strong's Harm. and Expos. of the Gospels, p. 16.)

6. The son of Amos and father of Joseph, among the maternal ancestry of Jesus after the close of the O.-Test. genealogy ( Luke 3:25). B.C. post 406.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mat - i - thı̄´a ( מתּתיה , mattithyāh , or מתּתיהוּ , mattithyāhū , "gift of Yah"):

(1) The Mattithiah of  Nehemiah 8:4 (1st spelling) was one of those who stood at Ezra's right hand while he read the law (compare 1 Esdras 9:43). He may be the individual set over "things that were baked in pans" (  1 Chronicles 9:31 ).

(2) One of those appointed by David to minister before the ark, and to "celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel" ( 1 Chronicles 16:4 ,  1 Chronicles 16:5 ).

(3) One of those who had foreign wives ( Ezra 10:43 ). In 1 Esdras 9:35, "Mazitias."

(4) One of the Levites who ministered before the ark with harps  1 Chronicles 15:18 ,  1 Chronicles 15:21;  1 Chronicles 25:3 ,  1 Chronicles 25:11 ,  1 Chronicles 25:2 spelling).