Gog n.  Haste; ardent desire to go. [Obs.]
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 Gog
    (1.) A Reubenite (1 Chr. 5:4), the father of Shimei.
      (2.) The name of the leader of the hostile party described in
    Ezek. 38,39, as coming from the "north country" and assailing
    the people of Israel to their own destruction. This prophecy has
    been regarded as fulfilled in the conflicts of the Maccabees
    with Antiochus, the invasion and overthrow of the Chaldeans, and
    the temporary successes and destined overthrow of the Turks. But
    "all these interpretations are unsatisfactory and inadequate.
    The vision respecting Gog and Magog in the Apocalypse (Rev.
    20:8) is in substance a reannouncement of this prophecy of
    Ezekiel. But while Ezekiel contemplates the great conflict in a
    more general light as what was certainly to be connected with
    the times of the Messiah, and should come then to its last
    decisive issues, John, on the other hand, writing from the
    commencement of the Messiah's times, describes there the last
    struggles and victories of the cause of Christ. In both cases
    alike the vision describes the final workings of the world's
    evil and its results in connection with the kingdom of God, only
    the starting-point is placed further in advance in the one case
    than in the other."
      It has been supposed to be the name of a district in the wild
    north-east steppes of Central Asia, north of the Hindu-Kush, now
    a part of Turkestan, a region about 2,000 miles north-east of
    Nineveh.
 Gog, roof; covering