ABSTRACT
T H E division of the Jewish kingdom, and the internecine war in Palestine that resulted therefrom, coincided with a renewed rise of the Assyrian power.
Between Ashur-erbi, in whose reign the Syrian cities of Pethor and Mutkinu, and with them probably the whole transEuphratean dominions of Tiglath-pileser I, were lost to the Aramaean invaders, and Ashur-nasir-pal, who recovered North Syria, nearly two centuries elapsed. For over a century after the reign of Ashur-erbi Assyrian history is a blank, till the name of an Assyrian king is once more mentioned; this is Tiglath-pileser III, a contemporary of Solomon and of Shishak. O f this third Tiglath-pileser we have no contemporary record: we know him only from an inscription1 of his grandson, Adad-nirari II.
