Word: tiglath
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...similar to Solomon's but built 300 years before his time. From the ruins, Yadin was able to establish the date of Joshua's conquest of Canaan as the late 13th century B.C. At one level, a thick layer of ash provided grisly evidence that Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III had put Hazor to the torch...
...whom the Jews are trying to reestablish themselves in Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still worshipping Jeroboam's golden-calves in Menahem's reign, about 2,668 years ago, when Pul (nickname for King Tiglath-pileser of As syria) came down to conquer the region. Menahem paid Pul $1,940,000 to go away peacefully. Menahem got the money by exacting $32.30 from each of "all the mighty men of wealth" in Israel. But shortly after, Shalmaneser, Pul's successor, descended upon the kingdom...
...have a general knowledge of what is going on in the world and of the prominent facts of history; but a professor of applied psychology would gain little by memorizing the names of the slate capitals or in being able to tell how long the reign of Tiglath Piloser endured...