1 Chronicles 3:17 lists him among the sons of Yechonyahu born in (or carried into) exile — 'the sons of Yechonyahu, the captive: Assir, She'altiel his son'
Named seven times in Ezra and Haggai purely to identify Zerubavel as 'the son of She'altiel' (Ezra 3:2, 3:8, 5:2; Haggai 1:1, 1:12, 1:14, 2:2, 2:23) — he himself performs no recorded action and speaks no recorded word anywhere in the Hebrew Bible
Nehemiah 12:1 lists 'Zerubavel the son of She'altiel' among those who returned from Babylon with Zerubavel and Yeshua the high priest, again naming She'altiel only as Zerubavel's father
Named in Matthew 1:12 ('Yechonyahu begat She'altiel') and Luke 3:27 ('Zerubavel, which was the son of She'altiel, which was the son of Neri') — both genealogies make him the hinge between the exiled Davidic line and its post-exilic continuation, though they disagree on his own father (see note)
“His name means 'I have asked of God' — born into the captivity that Yirmeyahu had called childless, he is named seven times in scripture only as someone else's father”
Traditional note: This entry addresses the She'altiel/Zerubavel discrepancy forward-referenced in 'yechonyahu'. (1) 1 Chronicles 3:17–19 reads: 'the sons of Yechonyahu — Assir, She'altiel his son, Malkiram, and Pedayah... and the sons of Pedayah: Zerubavel and Shimei.' On the most natural reading this makes She'altiel and Pedayah brothers (both sons of Yechonyahu) and Zerubavel the son of Pedayah — She'altiel's nephew, not his son. Yet Ezra 3:2, 3:8, 5:2, Nehemiah 12:1, Haggai 1:1, 1:12, 1:14, 2:2, 2:23, Matthew 1:12, and Luke 3:27 all uniformly call Zerubavel 'son of She'altiel.' This dataset follows that near-unanimous tradition for its father/children fields (she'altiel.children includes zerubavel; zerubavel.father is 'shealtiel') while recording 1 Chronicles 3:19's 'son of Pedayah' here without adjudicating it. Commonly proposed harmonizations — offered for reference, not as this dataset's position — include a levirate marriage (Deuteronomy 25:5–6) in which Pedayah married his deceased brother She'altiel's widow, with Zerubavel counted legally as She'altiel's heir though biologically Pedayah's son; or that 'son' in the Ezra/Haggai/Matthew/Luke references carries the broader sense 'descendant/successor' that Hebrew genealogical usage sometimes allows. (2) A separate textual question in the same verse: 1 Chronicles 3:17 is ambiguous as to whether 'Assir' is a personal name (an otherwise-unmentioned eldest son of Yechonyahu) or a descriptive epithet for Yechonyahu himself — 'Assir' means 'the captive,' echoing Yechonyahu's defining fate as told in his own entry. If the latter, 'She'altiel his son' would name She'altiel as Yechonyahu's firstborn rather than second son. This dataset does not model a separate 'Assir' entry and leaves she'altiel.birth_order as null pending the maintainer's view. (3) A third and larger question: Luke 3:27 gives She'altiel's own father as 'Neri,' directly conflicting with 1 Chronicles 3:17 and Matthew 1:12, both of which make She'altiel a son of Yechonyahu. This is one entry point into the much larger Matthew/Luke genealogical divergence for the post-exilic generations — Luke's name-list from Zerubavel onward shares almost no names with Matthew's (see 'zerubavel') — and this dataset follows Matthew's She'altiel-son-of-Yechonyahu link (consistent with 1 Chronicles) for its spine, deferring the comprehensive Matthew/Luke discussion to 'yosef-mi-natzeret'.
