It is written:
Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you. (Ezekiel 38:6)
Who exactly is Gomer?
When we study the writings of ancient extra-biblical documents, we see that the descendants of Gomer are associated with the peoples of Germany and France.
“Gomer, the first son of Japheth according to Genesis, founded a people known to the early Greeks as the Cimmerians who dwelt on the shores of the Caspian Sea. From here, they were later driven away by the Elamites. The prophet Ezekiel, during the time of the Captivity, referred to them as those who dwelt in the uppermost parts of the north. They appear in Assyrian records as the Gimirraya whose defeat under king Esarhaddon is duly noted. They appear also in the annals of the reign of Ashurbanipal of Assyria around 660 BC. The people of Ashchenaz are found in earliest times in Armenia, and later Jewish writers associate them with the Germanic races (Germanic Jews to this day are called Ashkenazim). They appear also in the 6th century BC records of Assyria as the Askuza who allied themselves with the Mannai in a revolt against Assyria, an event also mentioned in Jeremiah (51: 27) -whose prophecy incidentally confirms the identity of the Askuza with the Ashkenazim. This people were later known to the Greeks as the Scythai, the Scythians of Herodotus. They gave their name to the lake and harbour of Ascanius and to the land of Ascania.” (Bill Cooper, After The Flood: The Early Post-Flood History Of Europe Traced Back To Noah, 510-518 (Kindle Edition))
We are told in the Book of Genesis about some of the descendants of Gomer:
Genesis 10:3-The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Interestingly enough, Josephus points out that the Greek name for the children of Ashkenaz is Rheginians. According to ancient Roman maps, these people settled in the modern nations of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany.
Further, the book of Jasher indicates that there were connections between the ancestors of Gomer and the French.
Book Of Jasher 10:8-And the children of Gomer, according to their cities, were the Francum, who dwell in the land of Franza , by the river Franza, by the river Senah. ”
The river “Senah” mentioned by Jasher is virtually identical to the Seine River where Paris was built.
Josephus-“For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, [Galls,] but were then called Gomerites.”. (Antiquities Of The Jews 1.6.1)
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