SHALLUM (sharlum), (Heb. shat retribution).
1. The fifteenth king of Israel. In the troubled times which followed the death of Jeroboam Il (B. C. 772), his son Zechariah was slain in the presence of the people by Shallum, who by this act extinguished the dynasty of Jehu. Shallum then mounted the throne (B. C. 771), but occupied it only one month, being opposed and slain by Menahem, who mounted the throne thus vacated (2 Kings xv :to-r5).
2. A king of Judah, son of Josiah (Jer. xxii: II), better known by the name of Jehoahaz (B. C. 281). (See JEHOAHAZ, 2.) 3. The husband of Huldah, the prophetess (2 Kings xxii :14), B. C. about 63o.
4. Son of Kore (I Chron. ix :19, 31). He was spared in the desert, when the earth opened and swallowed up his father (Num. xvi :31). His descendants had an office in the temple, to take care of the cakes that were fried there. He seems to be the same Shallum whose posterity returned from the captivity (Ezra ii :42; x:24; Nell. vii : 45), B. C. about ro5o.
5. Son of the high-priest Zadok, and father of Hilkiah the high-priest (r Chron. Vi:12, 13; iX: II), and forefather of Ezra (Ezra vii :2), B. C. after 95o. Called Meshullam in 1 Chron. ix :11; Neh. xi :IL (See MESHULLAM, 6. The last son of Napthali (1 Chron. vii :13). Called SHILLEM (Gen. xlvi :24), B. C. 7. Son of Shaul, a descendant of Simeon (1 Chron. iv :25), B. C. before 1618.
8. Son of Sisamai, of the tribe of Judah, house of Sheshan (I Chron. :40, 41), B. C. after 1300.
9. An Ephraimite, and father of Jehizkiah, of the time of Ahaz and Pekah (2 Chron. xxviii :12), B. C. before 74o.
10. A priest, descended from Bani, who married a foreign wife (Ezra x :42), B. C. 457.
11. A Levite porter who married a Gentile wife (Ezra x :24), B. C. 457.
12. Son of Halohesh. He was ruler over "the holy part of Jerusalem," and with his daughters assisted in rebuilding the walls (Neh. :12), B.
C. 445.