This document is about Shallum (Gatekeeper during Ezra's Return). For other homonyms, please refer to the Shallum document.
One of the gatekeepers among the returned exiles who agreed to send away their foreign wives and children after Ezra (the Scribe) returned to Jerusalem.
Ezra 2:42The descendants of the gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai, 139 in all.
Ezra 10:24Of the singers: Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
Ezra 10:42Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.