Teks -- Ezekiel 38:6 (NET)

38:6 They are joined by Gomer with all its troops, and by Beth Togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops– many peoples are with you.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 38:6 - Gomer

Inhabitants of Galatia.

Wesley: Eze 38:6 - Togarmah

Paphlagonia, and Cappadocia.

Wesley: Eze 38:6 - The north quarters

The more northern people, the numerous Tartars.

JFB: Eze 38:6 - Gomer

The Celtic Cimmerians of Crim-Tartary.

JFB: Eze 38:6 - Togarmah

The Armenians of the Caucasus, south of Iberia.

Clarke: Eze 38:6 - Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah

Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah - The Cimmerians and Turcomanians, and other northern nations. - Calmet.

Defender: Eze 38:6 - Gomer

Gomer was another son of Japheth, and father of Togarmah (Gen 10:2, Gen 10:3). His descendants also originally settled in Asia Minor. Gomer's name is preserved today in the Crimea and Togarmah's probably in Armenia (possibly also in Turkestan and Turkey). There is some indication that Gomer's descendants later migrated west and gave their name to Germany.

Defender: Eze 38:6 - many people

In addition to the tribes named, there will also be others - in fact, "many people with thee." In Psalm 83, another confederation of peoples is shown invading Israel in the last days - Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagarenes, Gebal, Ammon, the Philistines, Tyre and Assyria. It is significant that these were the ancient names of the peoples immediately surrounding Israel, whereas those in Ezekiel 38 are those surrounding these nations. This is probably the same invasion seen from both an internal perspective and an external perspective, for both end the same way, in a great convulsion of nature."

TSK: Eze 38:6 - Gomer // Togarmah

Gomer : Gen 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

Togarmah : Eze 27:14; Gen 10:3; 1Ch 1:6; Dan 11:40

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 38:6 - Gomer // Togarmah // Of the north quarters // of // Many people

Gomer inhabitants of Galatia, called formerly Gallograeci, Phrygians, and Bithynians, also these descended of Gomer.

Togarmah Paphlagonia and Cappadocia: see Eze 27:14 .

Of the north quarters: it might be read in apposition, and leave out

of so it will bring in many more to assist Gog; beside all those mentioned, the more northern people, the numerous Tartars, shall with all their bands fight for Gag.

Many people great, and mighty of stature, and strength, and courage, as well as many in numbers.

Gill: Eze 38:6 - Gomer, and all his bands // the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands // and many people with thee

Gomer, and all his bands,.... Or all his army, as the Targum. Gomer was the eldest son of Japheth, Gen 10:2, from whom descended the people called by the Greeks Galatians, or Galio-Grecians, as Josephus ⁱ says, who before were from him called Gomarians: others think that Phrygia, and the inhabitants of it, are meant; but, whether one or the other, they were both people of the lesser Asia, which is now in the hands of the Turks:

the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands; Togarmah was one of the sons of Gomer, Gen 10:3 whose posterity, according to the Greeks, as Josephus ^k says, were the Phrygians; but others rather think the Cappadocians descended from him; and that Togarmah designs their country, which also is a part of the Turkish dominions; See Gill on Eze 27:14. Several moderns, as Calmet ^l observes, believe that the children of Togarmah peopled Turcomania in Tartary, and Scythia, and which he approves of; and the Turks are mentioned by Ben Gorion ^m as one of the ten families of Togarmah. The Targum renders it here the province of Germany; as it is also interpreted in the Talmud ⁿ, but wrongly:

and many people with thee; from other places and nations, besides those named; especially out of the lesser Asia, as Pamphylia, Cilicia, and other places; and perhaps from Tartary, and elsewhere,