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SHALLUM

(Heb. šallûm, šallūm)
(also MESHULLAM, SHILLEM)

1. King of Israel who overthrew Zechariah and ended the dynasty of Jehu (2 Kgs. 15:10, 13). His one-month reign ca. 750 b.c.e. signaled the beginning of a period of chaos leading to the fall of the northern kingdom to Assyria in 722. Hosea speaks both of the fall of the house of Jehu (Hos. 1:4) and of such assassinations (7:7), and Shallum himself was soon struck down by Menahem, who may have been a rival already at the murder of Zechariah.

Nothing is known of Shallum’s background. The identification “son of Jabesh” may be a geographic rather than patronymic designation, indicating that the coup against Zechariah (and Samaria in general) began in Transjordan (cf. Pekah, who came from this area).

2. The husband of Huldah the prophetess (2 Kgs. 22:14) and son of Tikvah. 2 Chr. 34:22 identifies him as the son of Tokhath.

3. A descendant of Judah, son of Sismai and father of Jekamiah (1 Chr. 2:40-41).

4. The fourth son of Josiah (1 Chr. 3:15), who succeeded his father to the throne of Judah in 609 (Jer. 22:11) and took the throne name Jehoahaz (2 Kgs. 23:30; 2 Chr. 36:1). He reigned for three months, when he was deposed and removed from Jerusalem by Pharaoh Neco (2 Kgs. 23:33-34), who replaced him with his brother Eliakim (Jehoiakim).

5. A descendant of Simeon, son of Shaul and father of Mibsam (1 Chr. 4:24-25).

6. The son of Zadok and father of Hilkiah, listed among the descendants of Levi through Kohath, Amram, Aaron, and Eleazar (1 Chr. 6:12-13[5:38-39]). Ezra 7:2 includes him in the genealogy of Ezra. He is called Meshullam at 1 Chr. 9:11.

7. A son of Naphtali (1 Chr. 7:13), called Shillem in Gen. 46:24; Num. 26:49.

8. Chief of the gatekeepers and descendant of the Korahites, listed in 1 Chr. 9:17-19 among those who returned first from Babylon. Ezra 2:42 = Neh. 7:45 lists the gatekeepers as “sons of Shallum” (and others). According to 1 Chr. 9:19 Shallum held the important post at the eastern Kings’ Gate, through which the king would enter the temple (Ezek. 46:1-2).

9. The father of Jehizkiah, an Ephraimite leader opposed to the subjugation of Judean captives taken in the Syro-Ephraimite attack on Jerusalem (2 Chr. 28:12).

10. A levitical gatekeeper among those in the postexilic community required to divorce their foreign wives (Ezra 10:24).

11. One of the sons of Bannui listed in Ezra 10:42 among those who had married a foreign wife at the time of Ezra.

12. The son of Hallohesh, a high-ranking Jerusalem district official who with his daughters helped repair the walls of Jerusalem at the time of Nehemiah (Neh. 3:12).

13. The son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of Mizpeh, who helped repair the walls and gates of Jerusalem at the time of Nehemiah (Neh. 3:15).

14. The father of Maaseiah, doorkeeper of the temple when Jeremiah brought the Rechabites there as an object lesson on obedience (Jer. 5:4).

15. Jeremiah’s uncle (Jer. 32:7), whose son Hanamel sold the field at their family’s hometown Anathoth to Jeremiah.

Andrew H. Bartelt

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SHALLUM

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)