Agog and magog
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Ezekiel 38:1-4: "The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords..."
- Revelation 20:7-8: "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea"
- Gog and Magog: in British legend, the sole survivors of a race of giants, the offspring of demons and the 33 infamous daughters of the Emperor Diocletian, who murdered their husbands; they were taken as prisoners to London by Brute (the legendary ancestor ofthe Britons), where they were made to do duty as porters at the royal palace
- Gogmagog Hill: the higher of two hills some 5 km south-east of Cambridge; according to legend the giant Gogmagog fewll in love with the nymph Granta, but after she rejected him he was metamorphosed into the hill (Drayton, Polyolbion 21)
- Goemagot, Goemot, Gogmagog: the names given in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Britonum (1:16) and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (2:10:10), and elsewhere to the giant who dominated the western horn of England (i.e. Cornwall); he was slain by the mythical hero Corineus
- I Samuel 25:32-33: "Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto to him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal"
- agog: enthusiastic; in excited eagerness
- Gog: God (used in oaths as a way of "dodging the curse", i.e. not taking the holy name in vain)
- Genesis 10:2: "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras"
- The Book of Invasions 10: "Magog son of Japheth, of his progeny are the peoples who came to Ireland before the Gael"
