Category:Mattan

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Mattan - Gift. (1.) A priest of Baal, slain before his altar during the reformation under Jehoiada (2 Kings 11:18). (2.) The son of Eleazar, and father of Jacob, who was the father of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary (Matthew 1:15). (3.) The father of Shephatiah (Jeremiah 38:1).