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Tiglath-Pileser III
Relief
of Tiglath-Pileser III also called Pul in the Bible. He lived in about ca. 728
BC, as ruler of Nimrud in modern day Iraq. This relief is presently in the British
Museum. Copyright (c) 1995 David Graves & Jane Graves, ECM
Or Tilgath-Pil-neser, the Assyrian
throne-name of Pul (q.v.). He appears in the Assyrian records as gaining, in the
fifth year of his reign (about B.C. 741), a victory over Azariah (=Uzziah in 2
Chronicles26:1), king of Judah, whose achievements are described in 2 Chronicles
26:6-15. He is first mentioned in Scripture, however, as gaining a victory over
Pekah, king of Israel, and Rezin of Damascus, who were confederates.
He put Rezin to death, and punished Pekah by
taking a considerable portion of his kingdom, and carrying off (B.C. 734) a vast
number of its inhabitants into captivity (2 Kings 15:29; 16:5-9; 1 Chronicles
5:6, 26), the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh whom he
settled in Gozan. In the Assyrian annals it is further related that, before he
returned from Syria, he held a court at Damascus, and received submission and
tribute from the neighbouring kings, among whom were Pekah of Samaria and "Yahu-khazi
[i.e., Ahaz], king of Judah " comp. (2 Kings 16:10-16).
He was the founder of what is called "the second Assyrian empire," an
empire meant to embrace the whole world, the centre of which should be Nineveh.
He died B.C. 728, and was succeeded by a general of his army, Ulula, who assumed
the name Shalmaneser IV. Easton Bible Dictionary
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