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  2. Magog (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    Josephus refers to Magog son of Japheth as progenitor of Scythians, or peoples north of the Black Sea. [2] According to him, the Greeks called Scythia Magogia. [3] An alternate identification derived from an examination of the order in which tribal names are listed in Ezekiel 38, "would place Magog between Cappadocia and Media."

  3. Meshech - Wikipedia

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    Meshech is mentioned along with Tubal (and Rosh, in certain translations) as principalities of "Gog, prince of Magog" in Ezekiel 38:2 and 39:1, and is considered a Japhetite tribe, identified by Flavius Josephus with the Cappadocian "Mosocheni" (Mushki, also associated with Phrygians or Bryges) and their capital Mazaca.

  4. Gog and Magog - Wikipedia

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    The form "Gog and Magog" may have emerged as shorthand for "Gog and/of the land of Magog", based on their usage in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. [11] An example of this combined form in Hebrew (Gog u-Magog) has been found, but its context is unclear, being preserved only in a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  5. Josephus - Wikipedia

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    Although Josephus says that he describes the events contained in Antiquities "in the order of time that belongs to them," [62] Feldman argues that Josephus "aimed to organize [his] material systematically rather than chronologically" and had a scope that "ranged far beyond mere political history to political institutions, religious and private ...

  6. Dhu al-Qarnayn - Wikipedia

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    The wall Dhu al-Qarnayn builds on his northern journey may have reflected a distant knowledge of the Great Wall of China (the 12th-century scholar Muhammad al-Idrisi drew a map for Roger II of Sicily showing the "Land of Gog and Magog" in Mongolia), or of various Sasanian walls built in the Caspian Sea region against the northern barbarians, or ...

  7. Matthew McConaughey Is Unrecognizable Dressed as an NFL ... - AOL

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    Matthew McConaughey swaps his Texas twang for a Chicago accent in Uber Eats’ Super Bowl commercial.. The Oscar winner, 55, gets a Midwestern makeover in the 30-second ad teaser and PEOPLE has an ...

  8. Gates of Alexander - Wikipedia

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    Josephus, a Jewish historian in the 1st century, gives the first extant reference to gates constructed by Alexander, designed to be a barrier against the Scythians. [5] According to this historian, the people whom the Greeks called Scythians were known (among the Jews) as Magogites, descendants of the group called Magog in the Hebrew Bible.

  9. ‘Push, girl. You’re fine!’ 8-year-old’s narration of Jesus ...

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    There's never a dull moment in the Howell household with 8-year-old Maisley's hilarious renditions of the Bible. Maisley attends a private school in Tennessee where they have daily Bible lessons.