'Bands' in the Bible
The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,
Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!
And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.
The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?