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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 38:6
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Gomer, and all his bands, &c.] Or all his army, as the Targum. Gomer was the eldest son of Japheth, (<011002>Genesis 10:2), from whom descended the people called by the Greeks Galatians, or Galio-Grecians, as Josephusf653 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, (<011003>Genesis 10:3) whose posterity, according to the Greeks, as Josephusf654 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 “<262714>Ezekiel 27:14”). Several moderns, as Calmetf655 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 Gorionf656 as one of the ten families of Togarmah. The Targum renders it here the province of Germany; as it is also interpreted in the Talmudf657, 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,
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