In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,.... Into the land of Israel; he is called by a Jewish chronologer , Pul-Asir; so Phul-Assar by Metasthenes , who says he reigned twenty five years; he very probably was the son of Pul the Assyrian king, mentioned 2Ki 15:19, and is thought to be the same that Aelianus 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 , with which Assyria was washed; and that Pil, or Pul, is Baal, Bel, Jupiter, and Azar is Mars ; of all which his name is composed:and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah; of which see 1Ki 15:20,and Janoah; a city in the tribe of Ephraim, Jos 16:6and Kedesh, and Hazor; cities in Naphtali: Jos 19:36and Gilead; a country beyond Jordan, which belonged to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half tribe of Manasseh:and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; that is, upper Galilee, which lay in Naphtali:and carried them captive to Assyria; which was the first captivity of Israel in which half their tribes were carried away.
David Ganz. Ut supra. (Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 3. 2.) Ut supra. (De Judicio Temp. & Annal. Pers. fol. 221. 2.) De Animal. l. 12. c. 21. Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 27. Hyde Hist. Relig. Pers. p.