Shealtiel

Who

Key verses

1. 1 Chronicles 3:17

   The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,

2. Ezra 3:2

   Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

3. Haggai 1:1

   In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came by Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

4. Matthew 1:12

   After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.

5. Luke 3:27

   the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

Where the Bible names him

Family

Parents

• JJechoniahMatthew 1:12; 1 Chronicles 3:17–18
• NNeriLuke 3:27

Children

• ZZerubbabelMatthew 1:12; Luke 3:27

Brothers and sisters

• MMalchiram
• PPedaiah
• SShenazzar
• JJekamiah
• HHoshama
• NNedabiah

Discussed by

Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 55).

• Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 1:12–15Catena Aurea on Matthew

  After the carrying away, he sets Jeconiah again, as now become a private person.

• Ambrose of Milan on Matthew 1:12–15Catena Aurea on Matthew

  Of whom Jeremiah speaks. “Write this man dethroned; for there shall not spring of his seed one sitting on the throne of David.” [Jer 22:30] How is this said of the Prophet, that none of the seed of Jeconias should…

• Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 1:12–15 (2)Catena Aurea on Matthew

  Concerning Salathiel [ed. note, l: This Gloss. from Pseudo-Chrys. is not found in Nicolai’s edition.], we have read nothing either good or bad, but we suppose him to have been a holy man, and in the captivity to have…

• Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 1:12–15Catena Aurea on Matthew

  But this seems to contradict the genealogy which is read in Chronicles. For there it is said, that Jeconias begot Salathiel and Phadaias, and Phadaias begot Zorobabel, and Zorobabel Mosollah, Ananias, and Solomith…

• Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15Catena Aurea on Matthew

  He is also Zorobabel, that is, ‘the master of confusion,’ according to that, “Your Master eateth with publicans and sinners.” [Matt 9:11] He is Abiud, that is, ‘He is my Father,’ according to that, “I and the Father…

• Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 1:12–15 (2)Catena Aurea on Matthew

  He is also Eleazar, i.e. ‘God is my helper,’ as in the seventeenth Psalm, “My God, my helper.” He is also Mathan, that is, ‘giving,’ or, ‘given,’ for, “He gave gifts for men;” [Eph 4:8] and, “God so loved the world,…

• Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (2)Catena Aurea on Matthew

  He is also Jacob, ‘that supplanteth,’ for not only hath He supplanted the Devil, but hath given His power to His faithful people; as, “Behold I have given you power to tread upon serpents.” [Luke 10:19] He is also…

• Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:12–15Catena Aurea on Matthew

  But let us see what moral signification these names contain. After Jeconias, which means ‘the preparation of the Lord,’ follows Salathiel, i.e. ‘God is my petition,’ for he who is rightly prepared, prays not but of…