Shalman (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hos l<fl* (only) ' as Shalman gpolled Betharbel in the day of battle.' The identity of Shalman and of Binn-AliUKL (whicli see) are botli doubtful. The former name may be a contraction of S/uiimaneser, although the pro- phet's language, implying some event fresh in the memory of his hearers, does not suit the reign of Shalmaneser II. (n.c. 860-825) or even Shalmancser III. (783-773). If Shalmaneser IV. (727-722) be referred to, the words must be a later gloss (so AVullliauseii, Kl. Proph.

ad toe). To the sug- gestion of Schrader [KAT* 441 [COT ii. 140]) that the reference may be to an incursion (cf. 2 K IS'-"") of the Moabite king Salamanu, mentioned in Tiglath-pile.ser'8 great triumphal inscription (II Rawl. ()7, line 60), both Wellh. and Nowack object that such an occurrence would have been too insignificant to supply material for the pro- phet's comparison. The versions give us no help, the LXX li reproducing '?k31!< n'j \::\v it'? by us ipXuo [i.e.

■ft' for tr] laXo^uiF it toO oiKov'lepo^od/x (A 'ltpo§ia\), while the V^ulp. has Hcut vaxiatus est Salmnna a domo ejus qui jtidicavit B<tnl, think- ing apparently of the slaughter of Zalnninna by Gideon (Jenjhbaal), Jg 8. J. A. Seluie.