Beth-togarmah

Beth-togarmah ("house of Togarmah") was a distant northern people descended from Togarmah son of Gomer son of Japheth in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6). Ezekiel's lament for Tyre singles out Beth-togarmah as the supplier of "horses, war-horses, and mules" in the great Phoenician marketplace (Ezekiel 27:14) — confirming the people's ancient association with the horse-breeding highlands of eastern Anatolia. Ezekiel later names Beth-togarmah "from the uttermost parts of the north" as one of the allies of Gog the prince of Meshech and Tubal in the great eschatological invasion of the restored land of Israel (Ezekiel 38:6). Scholars place Beth-togarmah in the highlands of Armenia and eastern Turkey, with the Hittite city of Tegarama (modern Gürün) preserving the name in the Assyrian period.