Text:EBD:Magog
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Magog is the name of the second of the "sons" of Japheth recorded in Genesis 10:2 and 1 Chronicles 1:5).
Magog is also mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 38:2; Ezekiel 39:6) where it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. Its people are described as skilled horsemen, and expert in the use of the bow. The Latin father Jerome taught that this word denotes "Scythian nations, fierce and innumerable, who live beyond the Caucasus and the Lake Maeotis, and near the Caspian Sea, and spread out even onward to India." Perhaps the name "represents the Assyrian Mat Gugi, or `country of Gugu,' the Gyges of the Greeks" (Sayce's Races).
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