SELLUM (Heb. Sallām). — Name of some fifteen personages in the Old Testament.
The principal ones are: 1. S., son of Jabesh, king of Israel (744 B.C.), who took the throne and life of Zachariah, son of Jeroboam II (q.v.). In his turn, after only one month’s reign, he was slain by Menahem (q.v.), who captured Samaria and seized the throne (2 Kings 15:10–15).
2. S., son of Thecua and husband of the prophetess Huldah, keeper of the priestly vestments in the time of King Josiah (q.v.) (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chron. 34:22); some think he is the same as the prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 32:7).
3. S., son of Joash and king of Judah (815–799 B.C.), better known by the name of Jehoahaz (q.v.).
4. S., son of Zadok and father of Hilkiah, high priest, also called Meshullam (1 Chron. 6:12 ff.; 9:11), ancestor of Ezra (Ezra 7:27).
5. S., a Levite of the descendants of Korah, chief of the gatekeepers of the sanctuary in David’s time (1 Chron. 9:17; 19:31).