ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible Encyclopedia The name of a
biblical king and a place… Pul, an Assyrian king—It has been a
question whether he was identical with Tiglath-pileser III.
(q.v.), or was his predecessor. The weight of evidence is
certainly in favor of their identity. Pul was the throne-name he
bore in Babylonia as king of Babylon, and Tiglath-pileser the
throne-name he bore as king of Assyria. He was the founder of
what is called the second Assyrian empire. He consolidated and
organized his conquests on a large scale. He subdued Northern
Syria and Hamath, and the kings of Syria rendered him homage and
paid him tribute. His ambition was to found in Western Asia a
kingdom which should embrace the whole civilized world, having
Nineveh as its center. Menahem, king of Israel, gave him the
enormous tribute of a thousand talents of silver, “that his hand
might be with him” (2 Kings 15:19; 1 Chr. 5:26). The fact that
this tribute could be paid showed the wealthy condition of the
little kingdom of Israel even