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On a broken obelisk, for instance, Tiglath-Pileser I boasted of slaying them in the Lebanon mountains.9
Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Our crimes are closer to those of Pol Pot than Nebuchadnezzar or Tiglath-Pileser.
Jon Stewart vs. Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage James F. McGrath 2008
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Jerusalem was sacked several times; it was tributary to kings Hazael and Razin, enslaved under Tiglath-Pileser, three times taken by Nebuchodonosor, or Nebuchadnezzar, and at last destroyed.
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The books that are left us of this singular nation make no mention of a return of the twelve tribes transported beyond the Euphrates by Tiglath-Pileser and his successor Shalmaneser; and it was six hundred years after, that Cyrus sent back to Jerusalem the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, which Nebuchodonosor had brought away into the provinces of his empire.
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Hiram II (774c. 730) paid tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III in 738, but his successor Luli (c. 730701) joined with the Egyptians and Judah in an unsuccessful rebellion against the Assyrians and fled to Cyprus.
c. Phoenicia 2001
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Zechariah was assassinated by Shallum (752), but after only one month's rule, he in turn was killed by Menahem (752742), who paid an enormous tribute of 1,000 talents of silver to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria to avoid conquest.
841-752 2001
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Tiglath-Pileser III (745727) received 30,000 camels as tribute from Samsi, an Arabian queen, and Sennacherib (704681) defeated a Queen Iati'e of the Arabs (See 704681).
c. Northern Arabia 2001
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Uzziah became the head of the western anti-Assyrian coalition, but he was defeated by Tiglath-Pileser III in 738, although (unlike its Aramean allies) Judah managed to keep its independence (See 744727).
841-752 2001
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In 755, King Matiel of Arpad allied himself with Urartu (See 744727) against the Assyrians, but they were defeated by Tiglath-Pileser III in 743.
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The youngest son of Adad-nirari III, Tiglath-Pileser III introduced the last and greatest period of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
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