Pul. (lord).

1. A country or nation mentioned in Isa_66:19. It is spoken of with distant nations, and is supposed by some to represent the island Philae in Egypt, and by others Libya.

2. An Assyrian king, and the first Assyrian monarch mentioned in Scripture. He made an expedition against Menahem, king of Israel, about B.C. 770. 2Ki_15:19.

Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Pul

pul:

(1) An Assyrian king (2Ki_15:19). See TIGLATH-PILESER.

(2) An African country and people (Isa_66:19). See PUT.

Source: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Pul (see definition #2)

(1.) An Assyrian king. It has been a question whether he was identical with Tiglath-pileser III. (q.v.), or was his predecessor. The weight of evidence is certainly in favour of their identity. Pul was the throne-name he bore in Babylonia as king of Babylon, and Tiglath-pileser the throne-name he bore as king of Assyria. He was the founder of what is called the second Assyrian empire. He consolidated and organized his conquests on a large scale. He subdued Northern Syria and Hamath, and the kings of Syria rendered him homage and paid him tribute. His ambition was to found in Western Asia a kingdom which should embrace the whole civilized world, having Nineveh as its centre. Menahem, king of Israel, gave him the enormous tribute of a thousand talents of silver, “that his hand might be with him” (2Ki_15:19; 1Ch_5:26). The fact that this tribute could be paid showed the wealthy condition of the little kingdom of Israel even in this age of disorder and misgovernment. Having reduced Syria, he turned his arms against Babylon, which he subdued. The Babylonian king was slain, and Babylon and other Chaldean cities were taken, and Pul assumed the title of “King of Sumer [i.e., Shinar] and Accad.” He was succeeded by Shalmanezer IV.

(2.) A geographical name in Isa_66:19. Probably = Phut (Gen_10:6; Jer_46:9, R.V. “Put;” Eze_27:10).

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary