SHEALTIEL shé ăl’ tĭĕl (שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵ֖ל; LXX, NT Σαλαθιηλ, God is a shield). KJV SALATHIEL (1 Chron 3:17; Matt 1:12; Luke 3:27).

The eldest son of King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) of Judah (1 Chron 3:17; Matt 1:12) and the father of Zerubbabel the leader of the first group of returners from the Babylonian Captivity, and governor of postexilic Judah under the Pers. King Darius I (Ezra 3:2; Neh 12:1). The apparent discrepancy between 1 Chronicles 3:19 and Matthew 1:12 where the MT of the Chronicles reference makes Pedaiah (a brother of Shealtiel) the father of Zerubbabel, has been explained by the possibility that Shealtiel, being childless, adopted Zerubbabel the son of his brother Pedaiah, or perhaps that Zerubbabel was born to the widow of the childless Shealtiel as a result of a levirate marriage according to which the child would be legally the son of Shealtiel. It has also been conjectured that the reference in 1 Chronicles 3:19 is to another Zerubbabel, a cousin of the son of the same name in Matthew 1:12.