Magog in Biblical History

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What is Magog?
MA'GOG
(region of Gog), the second son of Japheth, Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5, and the name of a people descending from him, or the country inhabited by that people, and of which Gog was the king. Eze 38:2; Eze 39:1, 1 Chr 24:6, etc. In the Middle Ages the Syrians applied the name of Magog to Asiatic Tartary, and the Arabians to the region between the Caspian and the Black Seas. Generally the people of Magog are identified with the Scythians, who, in the times when Ezekiel wrote, were well known in Western Asia. Descending from the Caucasian mountain-regions in the beginning of the seventh century b.c, they conquered Sardis, the capital of Lydia, in 629, and defeated Cyaxares, king of Media, in 624. They penetrated even into Egypt, but were bribed off by Psammetichus. They were not expelled, however, from Western Asia until the beginning of the next century. By Ezekiel they are described as excellent horsemen, skilled in the use of the bow, Eze 38:15; Eze 39:3, and exactly the same traits are prominent in the descriptions of the Scythians by the classical historians. In Rev 20:7-9 the terms Gog and Magog are evidently used as types of the enemies of Christianity. See Gog.

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