Pul
pul:
(1) An Assyrian king (2 Ki 15:19).
See TIGLATH-PILESER.
(2) An African country and people (Isa 66:19).
See PUT....
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-1. King of Assyria
Forced taxes from Menahem, king of Israel
2Ki 15:19; 1Ch 5:26
-2. A place or tribe in Africa
Isa 66:19...
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(lord), a country or nation mentioned in Isa 66:19 It is
spoken of with distant nations, and is supposed by some to
represent the island Philae in Egypt, and by others Libya....
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(1.) 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
favour 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 founde...
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Isaiah 66:19. Philae, an island in the Nile, the border
between Egypt and Ethiopia (Bochart). Septuagint read Phud.
Phut ought to be read for Pal; compare Nahum 3:9. (See PHUT.)
An African people is meant by Isaiah (Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel
30:5)....
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