2Ki 15:19-20 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for 2Kgs 15:19-20: 15:19-20 Tiglath-pileser: The NLT uses the Assyrian (see 15:29 ; 16:6 ) form of the name, rather than the Hebrew form, Pul , which is taken from the Babylonian. Tiglath-pileser III seized the throne of Assyria in 744 BC and provided able leadership until his death in 727 BC . • When Tiglath-pileser launched the western campaign to regain territory held by Aram, Menahem paid him a heavy tribute of thirty-seven tons of silver to keep him from overrunning Israel. • Although Menahem’s name means comfort, the unsettled conditions in the northern kingdom provided little consolation for God’s people during his reign (752

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Summary for 2Kgs 15:19-20: 15:19-20 ^a Tiglath-pileser: The NLT uses the Assyrian (see 15:29 ^b; 16:6 ^c) form of the name, rather than the Hebrew form, Pul, which is taken from the Babylonian. Tiglath-pileser III seized the throne of Assyria in 744 BC and provided able leadership until his death in 727 BC.

• When Tiglath-pileser launched the western campaign to regain territory held by Aram, Menahem paid him a heavy tribute of thirty-seven tons of silver to keep him from overrunning Israel.

• Although Menahem’s name means comfort, the unsettled conditions in the northern kingdom provided little consolation for God’s people during his reign (752–742 BC).