Shallum

Mentioned 535–444 BC traditional (Jones)

A keeper of the gate in the reign of David (1 Chr. 9:17).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Kore
Child: Mattithiah
Tagged in: 5 verses

The 30th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Mentioned in the era of Exile and return, 586–5 BC.
Named in the same verses as Akkub, Talmon, Ater, Hatita, Shobai, Ahiman, Ebiasaph, and Korah.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 560–419 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

5 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

1 Chronicles3
Ezra1
Nehemiah1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Shallum 27
KJV	Shallum 27
ASV	Shallum 27

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 5 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Chronicles3 verses

9:17
These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief;
9:19
Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives from the Korahites were assigned to guard the thresholds of the Tent, just as their fathers had been assigned to guard the entrance to the dwelling of the LORD.
9:31
A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread.

Ezra1 verse

2:42
The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 139 in all.

Nehemiah1 verse

7:45
The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 138 in all.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.