Shallum
Retribution. (1.) The son of Jabesh, otherwise unknown. He “conspired against Zachariah, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead” (2 Kgs 15:10). He reigned only “a month of days in Samaria” (2 Kgs 15:13, marg.). Menahem rose up against Shallum and put him to death (2 Kgs 15:14, 2 Kgs 15:15, 2 Kgs 15:17), and became king in his stead.
(2.) Keeper of the temple vestments in the reign of Josiah (2 Kgs 22:14).
(3.) One of the posterity of Judah (1 Chr 2:40, 1 Chr 2:41).
(4.) A descendant of Simeon (1 Chr 4:25).
(5.) One of the line of the high priests (1 Chr 6:13).
(6.) 1 Chr 7:13.
(7.) A keeper of the gate in the reign of David (1 Chr 9:17).
(8.) A Levite porter (1 Chr 9:19, 1 Chr 9:31; Jer 35:4).
(9.) An Ephraimite chief (2 Chr 28:12).
(10.) The uncle of the prophet Jeremiah (Jer 32:7).
(11.) A son of king Josiah (1 Chr 3:15; Jer 22:11), who was elected to succeed his father on the throne, although he was two years younger than his brother Eliakim. He assumed the crown under the name of Jehoahaz (q.v.). He did not imitate the example of his father (2 Kgs 23:32), but was “a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men” (Ezek 19:3). His policy was anti-Egyptian therefore. Necho, at that time at Riblah, sent an army against Jerusalem, which at once yielded, and Jehoahaz was carried captive to the Egyptian camp, Eliakim being appointed king in his stead. He remained a captive in Egypt till his death, and was the first king of Judah that died in exile.
Named in the Bible
The first 20 of 26 verses
- 2 Kings 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
- 2 Kings 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
- 2 Kings 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
- 2 Kings 15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
- 1 Chronicles 2:40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
- 1 Chronicles 2:41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.
- 1 Chronicles 3:15 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
- 1 Chronicles 4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
- 1 Chronicles 6:12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,
- 1 Chronicles 6:13 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
- 1 Chronicles 9:19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
- 1 Chronicles 9:31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
- 2 Chronicles 28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
- Ezra 2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
- Ezra 7:2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
- Ezra 10:24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
