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Mattaniah
Mattaniah, a descendant of Elam, divorced his foreign wife during Ezra's reforms. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:27.
Why it matters. Descendant of Elam, who divorced his foreign wife.
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Mattaniah
Mattaniah was a man from the family of Elam who had married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra. As part of Ezra's reforms to purify the Jewish community after their return from Babylonian exile, Mattaniah and others who had married foreign wives were required to divorce them (Ezr.10.27). This action was taken to ensure that the Israelites remained faithful to the Lord and did not fall into the same sins that had led to their exile.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)