Bible Person
Meaning: gift · Male · 1 cross reference
Mattan is the father of Shephatiah in Jeremiah 38:1. He belongs to the family background of the officials opposing Jeremiah late in Judah's collapse. First appears in Jer 38:1.1
AI summary: Mattan matters because his single cross reference supports the identity of one of the officials who pressures Zedekiah against Jeremiah. Even a brief paternal notice helps root that political opposition in remembered households. Taken together, the material presents Mattan as a familial source in the circle resisting Jeremiah.1
Central Figure
Mattan
Meaning: gift
The father of Shephatiah (Jer.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.