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Mattan (priest of Baal)

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Named at 2 Kings 11:18 as the priest of Baal: “All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.” Where WEB reads “before the altars”, the Korean Revised Version reads 그 단 앞에서, before the altar.

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2CH 23:16–21, engwebp
¹⁶Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
¹⁷All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
¹⁸Jehoiada appointed the officers of the LORD’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in the LORD’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
¹⁹He set the gatekeepers at the gates of the LORD’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
²⁰He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the LORD’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
²¹So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.
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2KI 11:17–21, engwebp
¹⁷Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’s people; also between the king and the people.
¹⁸All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the LORD’s house.
¹⁹He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the LORD’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
²⁰So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.
²¹Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
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2 Kings 11:18 Open that verse

All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the LORD’s house.

2 Chronicles 23:17 Open that verse

All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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Entry: Mattan (priest of Baal) (person-mattan-baal)
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Current wording: Named at 2 Kings 11:18 as the priest of Baal: “All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.” Where WEB reads “before the altars”, the Korean Revised Version reads 그 단 앞에서, before the altar.
Cited evidence: 2CH 23:16–21, engwebp / 2KI 11:17–21, engwebp
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