Shallum
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Key facts
- Reign
- one month's duration, between 752 and 745 BC
- Predecessor
- Zechariah
- Successor
- Menahem
- Father
- Jabesh
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Occupation
- monarch
- Image
- Nuremberg chronicles f 53v 3.(cropped).png
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- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- date of death
- 0752-01-01
- date of birth
- 0750-00-00
- name in native language
- שַׁלּוּם בֶּן יָבֵשׁ
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Shallum of Israel (Hebrew: שַׁלּוּם Šallūm, "retribution", fl. mid-8th century BC), was the fifteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, and the son of Jabesh, who reigned for only one month in 752 BCE.
In the Bible
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