Category:Bands

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Bands - (1.) of love (Hosea 11:4); (2.) of Christ (Psalms 2:3); (3.) uniting together Christ's body the church (Colossians 2:19; Colossians 3:14; Ephesians 4:3); (4.) the emblem of the captivity of Israel (Ezekiel 34:27; Isaiah 28:22; Isaiah 52:2); (5.) of brotherhood (Ezekiel 37:15); (6.) no bands to the wicked in their death (Psalms 73:4; Job 21:7; Psalms 10:6). Also denotes chains (Luke 8:29); companies of soldiers (Acts 21:31); a shepherd's staff, indicating the union between Judah and Israel (Zechariah 11:7).