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Mattathias

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Mattathias (măt'əthī`əs) [Gr. variant of Mattithiah Mattithiah (măt'ĭthī`ə), in the Bible.

1 Overseer in the temple.

2 Musician of David.
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2 Two in Luke's genealogy.

3 Father of the Maccabees Maccabees or Machabees (both: măk`əbēz), Jewish family of the 2d and 1st cent. B.C.
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4 Captain under Jonathan, the Maccabee.

5 Son of Simon, the Maccabee, murdered with his father.

6 Envoy from Nicanor to Judas Maccabeus.



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In 1 Maccabees, the insurgency begins in a small village, Modein, where a local leader, Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, was enraged when one of the people of the village stepped forward to offer sacrifice to idols.
I Maccabees says that Mattathias and his friends "forcibly circumcised all the uncircumcised boys that they found within the borders of Israel" (I Macc 2:45).
Fourth, there is the repeated occurrence of variations of the name Mattathias (five times), which serves to divide blocks of names at one end while Joanam or Jonam divides two of the blocks at the opposite end.
 
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