Persia, Cush, and Put will accompany them, all with shields and helmets,
The critical expositors have enough to do here to enquire out Gog and Magog. We cannot pretend either to add to their observations or to determine their controversies. Gog seems to be the king and Magog the kingdom; so that Gog and Magog are like Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Some think they find them afar off, in Scythia, Tartary, and Russia.
Commenting on Ezekiel 38:1-13
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...
Persia . . . Libya--expressly specified by APPIAN as supplying the ranks of Antiochus' army.