What are…
bands

1. Bands of love (Hos. 11:4)

2. Bands of Christ (Psalm 2:3)

3. Bands uniting together Christ’s body the church (Col. 2:19; 3:14; Ephesians 4:3)

4. Bands, the emblem of the captivity of Israel (Ezek. 34:27; Isaiah 28:22; 52:2)

5. Bands of brotherhood (Ezek. 37:15-28)

6. No bands to the wicked in their death (Psalm 73:4; Job 21:7; Psalm 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).