Reference: Banner, Ensign, Standard
Hastings
That the Hebrews, like the Egyptians (Wilkinson, Anc. Egyp. [1878] I. 195, illust.), Assyrians, and other ancient nations, possessed military ensigns is a safe inference from Nu 2:2, but not from the mention of the standard-bearer in Isa 10:18 AV, which is to be rendered as Revised Version margin. Nothing certain, however, is known regarding them. In the former passage a distinction seems to be made
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The sons of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses. They shall encamp round about opposite the tent of meeting.
And LORD said to Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard. And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.
Thou are fair, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, sublime as an army with banners.
Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, sublime as an army with banners?
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will whistle for them from the end of the earth, and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.
And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. And it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, {and he who arises to rule over the Gentiles (LXX/NT)}. In him shall the Gentiles {hope (LXX/NT)}, and his resting-place shall be glorious.
One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one. Ye shall flee at the threat of five, till ye are left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.