Bible Person
Meaning: perfect; agreeable · Male · 4 cross references
This Shallum entry refers to the usurping king of Israel who assassinates Zechariah and rules only briefly, not the priestly and gatekeeping Shallums already separately overridden. He is a vivid example of northern dynastic instability. First appears in 2 Kgs 15:10.1
Name meaning
perfect; agreeable
Identity
male
First appears
2 Kgs 15:10
AI summary: This Shallum matters because the cross references present him as a king who comes to power through murder and loses power almost immediately. His one-month reign dramatizes the volatility of the northern kingdom in its final generations and shows how little stability remains in the throne. He is remembered more as a symptom of collapse than as a ruler of consequence. Taken together, the material presents this Shallum as a short-lived usurper whose reign exposes the disintegration of Israel's monarchy.1
Central Figure
Shallum
Meaning: perfect; agreeable
The son of Jabesh, otherwise unknown.
Name meaning
perfect; agreeable
Identity
male
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 Kings 15:10). He reigned only “a month of days in Samaria” (15:13, marg.). Menahem rose up against Shallum and put him to death (2 Kings 15:14, 15, 17), and became king in his stead. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.