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Salathiel ben Neri 2nd Exilarch
- Preferred Name: Salathiel ben Neri 2nd Exilarch
- Gender: M
- FSID: 9CN3-ZC2
- Exiled+-+Shealtiel+as+well+as+the+most+of+the+royal+house+and+elite+of+Judah+were+exiled+to+Babylon+: 597 BC with note: Description: by order of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon after the first siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC. During the Babylonian captivity, Shealtiel was regarded as the 2nd Exilarch
- Birth: ABT 610 BC in Babylon, Mesopotamia at LATI: N2.54 LONG: E4.42 with note: calculated
- Clan Name: with note: Description: Leader of the House of David
- Death: 545 BC in Babylonia at LATI: N2.54 LONG: E4.42
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 2nd Exilarch over the Babylonian Jews
- alt.birth: 0586 v. Chr.
- Clan Name: with note: Description: Heir of the Davidic Dynasty - via his mother Tamar
- Tribe Name: with note: Description: House of Nathan : Judah through Nathan
- Occupation: Gouverneur de Judah
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Queen Tamar, Queen & Dynastic Heiress
Shaltiel (Salathiel), the son of Prince Neriah, was adopted in dynastic transfer by his mother, the dynastic princess of Crown Prince Johanan to King Jeconiah.
Their only son, Prince Zedekiah, had died a premature death.
This lineage was Extinct and without this dynastic transfer, the last pure Davidic lineage from King Solomon, would have become Extinct.
Prince Shaltiel succeeded King Jeconiah as the 2nd Exilarch over the Babylonian Jews.
He was the father of:
Zerubabbel bar-Shaltiel
http://www.biblesearchers.com/yahshua/davidian/dynasty1.shtml
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The royal family of King Jeconiah and his wife, Queen Tamar, were the royal Jewish family in exile. They were the last royalty that were appointed by the Jewish people. There son, Prince Zedekiah died prematurely at a young age, so the “King” adopted Queen Tamar’s seven sons by a prior marriage with Prince Neriah, of the non-royal House of Nathan;
. Prince Shealtiel (Salathiel),
. Prince Malchriam,
. Prince Pedaiah (Phadaia),
. Prince Shenazzur (Sin-ab-User),
. Prince Jekamiah (Yekamia),
. Prince Hoshama (Hochama) and
. Prince Nedabiah.
This adoption made all of them legal heirs to the throne of Solomon by a little known Torah provision from Sinai that a daughter who was a dynastic heiress of her father’s estate would inherit his estate, if, she married into her father’s tribe, the Tribe of Judah, and in this case, the royal estate, if, she married into her father’s house, the royal House of David and Solomon.
The “crown prince” who was the heir to the throne of King Jeconiah was his son, Prince Zedekiah, who died an untimely early death. By Torah law, and by the laws consistent with the nation’s that surrounded Israel and Judah, the oldest son would have been the “heir apparent” adopted son of King Jeconiah and Queen Tamar. His name was Prince Shealtiel meaning “I have asked the Lord”.
Prince Shealtiel did become the heir to the throne of David and assumed the title of the 2nd Exilarch (“ruler of the Jews in exile”) from his adopted father, King Jeconiah. At the time of the King Jeconiah’s ascension to the throne of Judah in the year of 597 BCE, these seven sons that were later adopted were already growing young men (false, he and brothers all born in Babylon, after 596BC). Prince Shealtiel could easily have been in his early to later teen age years at King Jeconiah’s coronation, even while the city of Jerusalem was under siege by the forces of King Nebuchadnezzar. Within one year, (596 BCE), after King Jeconiah’s ascension to the throne of Judah, the entire royal family was taken captive to Babylon.
Prince Shealtiel grew up in the shadow of his adopted father, the “king in exile”, who with his incitement for the “Egyptian faction” in Jerusalem to revolt, ended up with the long term incarceration of King Jeconiah in prison until the thirty seventh year of his captivity. Sometime during these years, Prince Shealtiel effectively took over the “royal court of Judah in exile” in the city of Babylon. He became the 2nd Exilarch of the Jews, in place of his adopted father, King Jeconiah who was imprisoned in isolation for so many decades by King Nebuchadnezzar. During this time also, Prince Shealtiel’s first born son, Prince Sheshbazzar, who could have been born soon after their exile to Babylon as early as 596 BCE. Here we are introduced to the newborn son, Prince Zorobabel of biblical fame whose name meant, “man (descended) of Babylon”.
http://www.biblesearchers.com/yahshua/davidian/dynasty1.shtml
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SHALTIEL, 2nd exilarch, was the step-son of King Jeconiah (Mt 1:12), son of the wife of King Jehoiakin (Jeconiah), namely, Tamar, the dynasty’s heiress, by a former husband, Prince Neri[ah] (Lk 3:27), was reckoned the "royal Davidic heir" after the death of their late king, Jehoiakin, and numbered among the exilarchs. He took the title "Exiled-King" upon King Jeconiah’s death.
He appears to have been recognized in some official capacity as a liaison between the Jewish Exiles and the Babylonian authorities. Shealtiel was considered by the Jewish exiles to be the successor of King Jeconiah on his demise, and was recognized as the "governor" ["pehah"] by the Babylonian state to better control such a large foreign ethnic group in their country.
The parentage Shealtiel is sometimes called into question, for he is called the son of King Jeconiah (Jehoiakin) in "Matthew" (1:12), however, he is called the son of Neri[ah] in "Luke" (3:27), thus, an apparent discrepancy exists. Most scholars agree that Shealtiel was not the true son of King Jeconiah because Jeremiah The Prophet declared "write this man [King Jeconiah] childless" (Jer 22:30), which means that he would not have any children or descendants to survive him, therefore, Shealtiel could not have been his son.
The only son of King Jeconiah, the crown-prince, Zedekiah (1 Chr 3:16), died unmarried without issue. Shealtiel was an adopted-son of King Jeconiah, his wife’s son of a previous marriage. He was never called "crown-prince" but "the acknowledged heir".
The father of Shealtiel, Neri[ah], was certainly known to have been a Davidic prince, or else the Jews would never have accepted Shealtiel as the heir to their royal house. Too, his mother could only have been Tamar, the heiress of the Solomonic line; for God assured King Solomon that the title of the throne would pass through his descendants forever, which means that the bloodline of Solomon would have to continue, for if Tamar was not the mother of Shealtiel then the bloodline of Solomon would be cut-off, and that can not be the case.
Hence, his adoption by King Jeconiah and the designation of Shealtiel as the royal heir was acceptable to the Jewish people.
Shealtiel, by his wife, whose name is unrecorded in the Bible, begot:
(a) Zerubabel [whose Babylonian name was Sheshbazzar]
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Salathiel and Zorobabel Seperate or same?
Luke 3: ................................... Matthew 1:
Josephs line from Nathan .......... Marys Royal line from Solomon
Melchi .....LJL5-2S1 .................. Josiah ......LKY7-81G
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Luke 2:23-38 Joseph's lineage to God
23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph (M1XP-LBX), which was the son of Heli (LD83-JVG),
24 Which was the son of Matthat (LDYV-R4Z), whic
=== Merge Info ===
Royal Lines by Albert F. Schmuhl SL LDS FHL film #1321099 Item 5 1935, Royal Pedigree Chart by Albert F. Schmuhl #1146 1980, The Kinship of Families 1321099 Item 2 and 10 by Archibald Fowler Bennett, 138 Generations from Adam to to Mary SL LDS FHL film #384994 Item #3, pg 42, Adam to Christ SL DS FHL film #1059467 Item 1 pg 34, Luke 3: 27, Matt 1: 12, Inspired Version of Bible Luke 3: 34, Matt 1: 4
=== Born after the excile to Babylon. Matth ===
Born after the excile to Babylon. Matthew 1.12
Preferred Parents:
Father: Neri ben Melchi, b. ABT 630 BC in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel d. BEF 600 BC
Mother: Tamar bat Johanan, Dynastic Davidian Heiress, b. ABT 625 BC in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel d. in Egypt
Family 1: Hachalya of Judah , b. ABT 610 BC d. in Babylon, Mesopotamia, Iraq
- Zorobabel ben Salathiel ben Neri, b. ABT 586 BC in Babylonia d. 510 BC in Babylonia
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