Meshullam = "friend"<OL TYPE="1"><LI>grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe<LI>son of Zerubbabel<LI>a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal<LI>a Benjamite, father of Sallu<LI>a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity<LI>a Benjamite<OL TYPE="a"><LI>perhaps the same as 3 or 4</OL><LI>a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah<LI>son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem<LI>son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem<LI>a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah<LI>father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah<OL TYPE="a"><LI>perhaps the same as 'Shallum'</OL><LI>a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai<LI>a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah<LI>a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua<LI>a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem<LI>a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah<LI>a Levite, one of the heads sent to Iddo to gather the Levites to join the caravan about to return to Jerusalem; a chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives<LI>ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah<LI>a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away<LI>one of the men who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people<OL TYPE="a"><LI>maybe the same as 17</OL></OL>