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SHEALTIEL

(Heb. šĕʾaltîʾēl, šaltîʾēl)
(also SALATHIEL)

The son of King Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) of Judah, who was taken captive into exile by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 b.c.e. (1 Chr. 3:17; Matt. 1:12). He is not the son of Neri as claimed by Luke’s genealogy of Jesus (Luke 3:27; Gk. Salathiel). Shealtiel is more widely known in the biblical tradition as the father of Zerubbabel, the Persian governor of postexilic Judah under Darius I of Persia (Ezra 3:2, 8; 5:2; Neh. 12:1; Hag. 1:1, 12, 14; 2:2, 23). In the Chronicler’s list of David’s descendants, however, Zerubbabel is called the son of Pedaiah (1 Chr. 3:19). The Chronicler might be in error, or he might have conflated his sources by identifying the governor Zerubbabel with a cousin of the same name.

In the apocalypse of 4 Ezra Shealtiel is equated with the scribe Ezra, who lived ca. 100 years later (2 Esdr. 3:1; NRSV “Salathiel”). This equation serves the literary purpose of placing Ezra 30 years after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, thereby associating Ezra’s time with that of the author — 30 years after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

Ronald A. Simkins

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SHEALTIEL

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)