Gog

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

38.488° N, 28.040° E

Gog

Founded by

Gog

• Γώγ·Gog
• גּוֹג·Gog

Includes 18 verses that refer to Gog without naming it.

1. Ezekiel 38:2
   “Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him
2. Ezekiel 38:3
   …and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
3. Ezekiel 38:4Referred to, not named
   I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.
4. Ezekiel 38:6Referred to, not named
   …as well as Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.
5. Ezekiel 38:7Referred to, not named
   Get ready; prepare yourself, you and all your company gathered around you; you will be their guard.
6. Ezekiel 38:8Referred to, not named
   After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
7. Ezekiel 38:9Referred to, not named
   You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
8. Ezekiel 38:10Referred to, not named
   This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
9. Ezekiel 38:11Referred to, not named
   You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—
10. Ezekiel 38:12Referred to, not named
    …in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
11. Ezekiel 38:13Referred to, not named
    Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
12. Ezekiel 38:14
    Therefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?
13. Ezekiel 38:15Referred to, not named
    And you will come from your place out of the far north—you and many peoples with you, all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army.
14. Ezekiel 38:16
    You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
15. Ezekiel 38:17Referred to, not named
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
16. Ezekiel 38:18
    Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.
17. Ezekiel 38:21Referred to, not named
    And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every man’s sword will be against his brother.
18. Ezekiel 38:22Referred to, not named
    I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
19. Ezekiel 39:1
    “As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
20. Ezekiel 39:2Referred to, not named
    I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from the far north, and send you against the mountains of Israel.
21. Ezekiel 39:3Referred to, not named
    Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
22. Ezekiel 39:4Referred to, not named
    On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
23. Ezekiel 39:5Referred to, not named
    You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.
24. Ezekiel 39:11
    And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.
25. Ezekiel 39:12Referred to, not named
    For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
26. Revelation 20:8
    …and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.