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Mattathias

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

1 Overseer in the temple.

2 Musician of David.

3 Assistant of Ezra.
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2 Two in Luke's genealogy.

3 Father of the Maccabees Maccabees or Machabees , Jewish family of the 2d and 1st cent. B.C. that brought about a restoration of Jewish political and religious life. They are also called Hasmoneans or Asmoneans after their ancestor, Hashmon.
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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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The Maccabees detail the glorious exploits of Judas Maccabaeus, a Jewish guerrilla leader, descended from a well-known priest, Mattathias.
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The best examples were the pre-1948 days when Zionist terror groups attacked both Palestinian and British targets; or in the 2nd century BC when the Jewish priest Mattathias and his five sons successfully led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid-Hellenist rulers of the region, using guerrilla tactics that would be called terrorism today (the victory which founded the Hasmonean dynasty is celebrated annually by Jews around the world in the Hanukkah festival).
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