SHALLUM shăl’ əm (שַׁלּ֖וּם; [1 Chron 7:13]; שַׁלֻּ֣ם [2 Kings 15:10]; שַׁלּ֣וּן [Neh 3:15]; שִׁלֵּֽם [Gen 46:24]; requited, recompense). KJV SHALLUN, (Neh 3:15); SALOM, sā’ lem (Baruch 1:7); SALUM (1 Esd 5:28). 1. A son of Jabesh, apparently from Ibleam in the plain of Esdraelon (2 Kings 15:10-15). He reigned over the ten tribes after having murdered Zechariah (14:29), son of Jeroboam II and the last king of Jehu’s dynasty; but within a month this usurper was himself assassinated by Menahem, c. 745 b.c. (2 Kings 15:8-15).
2. A son of Tikvah and husband of the prophetess Huldah (22:14; 2 Chron 34:22). He may have been the uncle of Jeremiah (Jer 32:7, but see no. 14). During Josiah’s reign he was the officer cited as keeper of the king’s wardrobe.
3. A descendant of Judah (Gen 46:12), family of Hezron, house of Jerameel, the father of Jekamiah (1 Chron 2:9, 40).
4. A son of King Josiah of Judah (1 Chron 3:15; Jer 22:11). His more common name is Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:30ff.). He succeeded his father, c. 608 b.c., at the age of twenty-three. He had an evil tendency. After reigning three months, Pharaoh Necho of Egypt deposed him and deported him to Riblah, and later to Egypt. This man was the first of the lion’s whelps (Ezek 19:1-9). Apparently the third son in age, his being placed fourth according to 1 Chronicles 3:15 is viewed as intentional degradation.
5. A descendant of Simeon, the son of Shaul (1 Chron 4:25), and father of Mibsam. (See Gen 46:10; Exod 6:15; Num 26:13.)
6. A member of the high priestly family of Zadok, and an ancestor of Ezra (Ezra 7:2); father of Hilkiah (1 Chron 6:12f.), perhaps the same as Meshullam (1 Chron 9:11).
7. The youngest son of Naphtali, son of Jacob (1 Chron 7:13), the same as Shillem (Gen 46:24).
8. A chief porter of the sanctuary (1 Chron 9:17, 19, 31). He seems to be the man mentioned in Jeremiah 35:4. He was a son of Kore, he and his family serving as gatekeepers (9:19). There was a Meshullam (Neh 12:25), and a Meshelemiah (1 Chron 9:21), and a Shelemiah (26:14), who presumably could be the same as the man noted in 1 Chronicles 9:19.
9. The father of a man named Jehizkiah (2 Chron 28:12).
10. A Levitical porter whose foreign wife was “put away” at the instigation of Ezra (Ezra 10:24).
11. A son of a certain Bani, also influenced by Ezra to separate from his foreign mate (Ezra 10:42).
12. A son of Hallohesh, the “ruler of half the district of Jerusalem,” whose daughters helped in the rebuilding of the city walls (Neh 3:12).
13. A son of Colhozeh, being a ruler of part of the Mizpah district, and a wall builder who repaired the Fountain Gate (Neh 3:15).
14. The uncle of Jeremiah (see 2 Kings 22:14). He sent his son Hanameel to the imprisoned prophet, to offer Jeremiah the right to purchase a family field at Anathoth. Jeremiah employed the occasion to symbolize future purchase of property in Judah—this at the time when Jerusalem was beleaguered by Babylon (Jer 32:7ff.).
15. The father of Maaseiah, and keeper of the threshold (Jer 35:4).
Bibliography J. Bright, History of Israel (1959), 253.