NATHAN-MELECH

na'-than-mel'-ek (nethan-melekh, "king's gift"): A Judean official, to whose chamber King Josiah removed "the horses of the sun" (2 Kings 23:11). The Septuagint calls him "Nathan, the king's eunuch" (Nathan basileos tou eunouchou).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.