4 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Gog and Magog from across Jewish tradition.
4 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines gog and magog, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
In a palace no one else may enter, a thousand halls deep in longing, the Messiah weeps and waits for the sign that his hour has come.
At Babel, under Joshua, and at the end with Gog, the world massed to break heaven's cords, and three times the plot recoiled on the plotters.
The world aged into ruin, Gog came up against Jerusalem, and the survivors burned his spears for seven winters before the dancing started.
Gog marched seventy-one nations on Jerusalem, calling Pharaoh and Haman fools. He would fight Israel's God first. The hail fell before the lines were dug.
