Shal'isha [some Shall' sha'] (lloh. Skalishah', ri'i"b'^, perhaps triangle; Sept. yiakiaaa v. r. 2t\x«)i a district ('j^'^lN, "land") traversed by Saul when in search of the asses of Kish (1 Sam. ix, 4). It apparently lay between "Mount Ephraim" and the "land of Shaa- lim," a specification which, with all its evident prccisc- ness, is irrccognisable, because the extent of Mount
Ejihraim is so nncertain ; and Shaalim, though proba- bly near Taiyibeh, is not yet definitely fixed there. The difficulty is increased by locating Shalisha at Saris or Khirhet Saris, a village a few miles west of Jerusalem, south of Abu Gosh (Tobler, Dritte Wand. p. 178), which some have proposed. If the land of Shalisha contained, as it not impossibly did, the place called Baal-shalisha (2 Kings iv, 42), which, according to the testimony of Eusebius and Jerome (Onom. s. v. " Beth Salisha"), lav fifteen Koman (or twelve English) miles north of Lydd, then the whole disposition of Saul's route would be changed. The words Ju/lath Sh(dishii/ah in Jer. xlviii, 34 (A. V. " a heifer of three years old") are by some translators rendered as if denoting a place named Shali- sha. But even if this be correct, it is obvious that the Shalisha of the prophet was on the coast of the Dead Sea, and therefore by no means appropriate for that of Saul. — Smith. Lieut. Conder proposes (Tent Work in Palest, ii, 339) to identify Shalisha with Kefr Shilfh, a ruined village on the western slope of Mount Ephraim, situated on the south side of Wady Azzun, which runs into the river Kanah (Robinson, f^uter Researches, p. 136, note); but there is nothing special to recommend the site except a considerable correspondence in the names. See Ramah.
Shal'lecheth [some Shalle' cheth'] (Ileb. Shidle'- l-eth, nisO, overthrow ; Sept. TrarrTo^optov), the name of a gate on the west of Solomon's temple, which fell to the lot of the porters Shuppim and Hosah (1 Chron. xxvi, 16). As it led to Mount Zion by the "causeway" (later the bridge), it probablj' was that called Kipjwnos (Coponius) in the Talmud (Middoth, i, 3). It is prob- ably also identical with the gate Sur (2 Kings xi, 6) or that of the " Foundation" (2 Chron. xxiii, 5). If, how- ever, the causeway be the same as that by which the water is now conveyed to the Haram, the gate in ques- tion may have been at the present Bab Silsileh, much farther north. See Temple.
Shal'lum (Heb. Shallum', D^^d, retribution ; Sept. usually StXXoi'yn), the name of at least twelve Hebrews.
1. The youligest son of Naphtali (1 Chron. vii, 13), called also Shilleji (Gen. xlvi, 24). B.C. 1874.
2. The third in descent from Simeon, son of Shanl and father of Mibsam (1 Chron. iv, 25). B.C. ante 1618.
3. Son of Sisamai and father of Jekamiah, of the house of Sheshan and tribe of Judah (1 Chron. ii, 40, 41). B.C. post 1300.
4. Son of Kore, and chief of the porters of the sanctu- ary in David's time (1 Chron. ix, 17 sq., 31). B.C. cir. 1050. He seems to be the same Shallum whose descend- ants returned from captivity (Ezra ii, 42 ; x, 24 ; Neh. vii, 45). He is apparently elsewhere called MeshuUam (xii, 25), Meshelemiah (1 Chron. xxvi, 1), and Shrle- miah (ver. 14). He was perhaps also the same with the " father" of Maaseiah in Jer. xxxv, 4.
5. Son of Zadok and father of Hilkiah, a high-priest (1 Chron. vi, 12, 13 ; ix, 11), and an ancestor of Ezra the scribe (Ezra vii, 2). B.C. post 950. He is called Sal- liimns by Josephus (^aXkoitfioQ, Ant. x, 8, 6). He is the Meshullara of 1 Chron. ix, 11; Neh. xi, 11. See
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6. The sixteenth king of Israel. His father's name was Jabesh. In the troubled times which followed the death of Jeroboam II (B.C. 781), the latter's son Zccha- riah was slain in the presence of the people by Shallum (B.C. 769), who by this act extinguished the dynasty of Jehu, as was predicted (2 Kings x, 30). See Jehu; Zechahiau. Shalhim then mounted the throne, but occupied it only one month, being opposed and slain by Menahem, who ascended the tlirone thus vacated (xv, 10-15). See Isuakl, Kinodoji of.
7. The father of Jchizkiah, which latter was one of the leading Ephraimites in the time of Ahaz and Pekah (2 Chron. xxviii, 12). B.C. ante 740.
8. The son of Tikvah and husband of the prophetess
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Huldah (2 Kings xxii, 14). B.C. cir. G30. He appears to have been the custodian of the sacerdotal wardrobe (2 Chron, xxxiv, 22). He was probably the same with JereuiKiirs uncle (Jer. xxxii, 7).
9. King of Judah, son of Josiah (Jer. xxii, 11), better known as Jehoahaz H (q. v.). Hengstenberg {Christol- o<jy of the Old Test, ii, 400, Eng. transl.) regards the name as symbolical, "tlie recompensed one," and given to Jehoahaz in token of his fate, as one whom (iod rec- ompensetl according to his deserts. Tins woukl be plausible enough if it were only found in the proidiecy ; but a genealogical table is the last place where we shoulil expect to find a symbolical name, and Shalkim is more probably the original name of tlie king, which was changed to Jehoahaz when he came to the crown. Upon a comparison of the ages of Jehoiakim, Jehoahaz or Shallum, and Zedekiah, it is evident that of the two last Zedekiah must have been the younger, and there- fore that Shallum was the third, not tha fourth, son of Josiah, as stated in 1 Chron. iii, 15. — Smith.