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Tiglath-Pileser III: 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 Chronicles 26:1)
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.
