Assyria's King Pul invades Israel
2 Kings 15:19–20; 1 Chronicles 5:26
Pul of Assyria invaded, and King Menahem paid him a thousand talents of silver, raised by taxing every wealthy man in Israel, to secure his throne.
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings 15:19 (World English Bible)
It was the first of several Assyrian interventions that would drain Israel and end in its destruction fifty years later.
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Dating notes
Ussher, 771 BC. Pul is generally identified with Tiglath-pileser III (1 Chronicles 5:26 names both), whose conventional reign begins in 745 BC; Ussher treated them as two kings.