2 Kings 15:29

“In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, etc.] Into the land of Israel; he is called by a Jewish chronologer f174 , Pul-Asir; so Phul-Assar by Metasthenes f175, who says he reigned twenty five years; he very probably was the son of Pul the Assyrian king, mentioned (<121519>2 Kings 15:19), and is thought to be the same that Aelianus f176 calls Tilgamos; some think he had the first part of his name from Diglath, or Diglito, by which the river Tigris is called in Pliny f177, with which Assyria was washed; and that Pil, or Pul, is Baal, Bel, Jupiter, and Azar is Mars f178; of all which his name is composed: and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah; of which (see…”

“PEKAH'S REIGN. (Kg2 15:27-31) in the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser--This monarch, who succeeded Pul on the throne of Assyria, is the only one of all the kings who does not give his genealogy, and is therefore supposed to have been an usurper. His annals have been discovered in the Nimroud mound, describing this expedition into Syria. The places taken are here mentioned as they occurred and were conquered in the progress of an invasion.”

“Tiglath-Pileser is the first among the Assyrian monarchs of Scripture whom we can certainly identify with a king mentioned in the monuments. According to the Assyrian Dr. he reigned from 745 B.C. to 727 B.C.; and the monuments show us this energetic and powerful prince (though, probably, an usurper), building and repairing palaces, levying armies, and carrying on successful wars against Merodach-Baladan in Babylonia, Rezin at Damascus, Hiram at; Tyre, the Medes, the Armenians, the natives of Northern Mesopotamia, and the Arabs who bordered upon Egypt. His Assyrian name, Tiglat-pal-zira, is composed of the elements tiglat, “adoration,” pal, “son,” and zira, a word of uncertain meaning. Ijon…”

“15:29-30 With his second western campaign (734–732 BC), Tiglath-pileser . . . attacked Israel again. Pekah had allied himself with King Rezin of Aram in an ill-conceived anti-Assyrian coalition (see Isa 9:1). As a result of this invasion, Tiglath-pileser captured and conquered much of Israel’s northern and eastern territory. • Pekah’s doomed political policies caused dissension in Israel that led to his assassination by Hoshea, whose action was probably intended to placate the Assyrian king and preserve the northern kingdom. In his annals, Tiglath-pileser claimed that he put Hoshea on the throne and received his heavy tribute. • The twentieth year of Jotham, counting from the beginning of…”

“Tiglathpileser: Some suppose Tiglath-pileser to be the son of Sardanapalus, but the learned Prideaux makes him the same as Arbaces the Mede, called by Alian, Thelgamus, and by Castor, Ninus Junior, who, with Belesis, headed the conspiracy against Sardanapalus, and fixed his royal seat at Nineveh, as Belesis, called in Scripture Baladan ( Isa 39:1), did his at Babylon. He reigned nineteen years, from am 3257 to am 3276. Kg2 16:7; Ch1 5:6, Ch1 5:26; Ch2 28:20, Ch2 28:21, Tiglath-pilneser, Isa 9:1 Ijon: Kg1 15:20; Ch2 16:4, Abel-beth-maachah, Sa2 20:14, Sa2 20:15 Janoah: Jos 16:6, Janohah Kedesh: Jos 19:37, Jos 20:7 Hazor: Jos 11:1, Jos 11:10, Jos 11:13, Jos 12:19; Jdg 4:2 Gilead: Num 32:1, Num…”