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Shealtiel
Shealtiel (, "Shə’altî’ēl"), transliterated in Greek as Salathiel (Greek: Σαλαθιηλ, "Salăthiēl"), was the son of Jeconiah, king of Judah. () The Gospel of Matthew also list Shealtiel as the son of Jeconiah (line of Solomon). Jeconiah, Shealtiel as well as the most of the royal house and elite of Judah were exiled to Babylon by order of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon after the first siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC. During the Babylonian captivity, Shealtiel was regarded
which identifies Zerubbabel as a son of Pedaiah could be a scribal error. It occurs in a part of the text where the Hebrew seems discongruent and possibly garbled (). The expected mention of Shealtiel being a father seems accidentally omitted, and thus his children became confused with Pedaiah's. The Greek Septuagint actually lists Shealtiel (and not Pedaiah) as Zerubbabel's father.
In any case, those texts that call Zerubbabel "son of Shealtiel" have a context that is overtly political and seems to emphasize Zerubbabel's potential