BIBLE DICTIONARY
Tiglath-pileser

(in Chronicles spelt Tilgath-pilneser). King of Assyria, 747-734 B.C., took Gilead, Galilee, and Naphtali from Pekah, king of Israel (2 Kgs. 15: 29); hired by Ahaz, king of Judah against Rezin and Pekah (2 Kgs. 16: 7); took Damascus (2 Kgs. 16: 9); other conquests (1 Chr. 5: 26); distressed Ahaz (2 Chr. 28: 20).