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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).