Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 15:19

19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land ; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him, to confirm the kingdom in his hand .

Called by Heathen An[illegible: 1+ letters]hors Pul-Belochus, who by the help of Arbaces the Mede, vanquished Sardanapalus the last Monarch of Assyria, and translated the Kingdom to Chaldaea, and was the first King of Babylon and Assyria; Arbaces being made King of the Medes and Persians.

To wit, of Israel, as the context shews.

i. e. Agreed or promised to give, as the next Verse explains it.

That he might assist him against all that did or should oppose him. By which it appears, that his cruelty to Tiphsah was so far from establishing him, as he expected, that it weakned and endangered him so far, that he was forced to call in a Foreign Prince to his aid.

Marginal references: 1 Chr. [illegible: 1 word] Isa. 9. 1.