Bands: 1. of love
(Hosea 11:4)2. of Christ
(Psalms 2:3)
3. uniting together Christ's body the church
(Colossians 2:19; 3:14; Ephesians 4:3)
4. the emblem of the captivity of Israel
(Ezekiel 34:27; Isaiah 28:22; 52:2)
5. of brotherhood
(Ezekiel 37:15-28)
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)
