ACCORDING TO ( ZONDERVAN'S ) "BIBLE DICTIONARY" BANNER IS TRANSLATED AS: DEGBEL, ENSIGN, AND STANDARD.
It goes on to say that banners were used in ancient times for military, and national purposes very much as they are today.
In connection with Israel's wilderness journey we read, "The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting some distance from it, each man under his standard with the banners of his family"(Num-2:2).
This word occurs frequently in the figurative sense of a rallying point for GOD'S people.(Isa-5:26; 11:10, Jer-4:21) We are never told in the Bible to bring banners / flags etc. into the place of meeting or church.
Isaiah-5:26[ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from
the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: ]
Isaiah-11:10[ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of
the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. ]This root of Jesse
is the Lord Jesus Who is the ensign that GOD lifted up for us all.
Isaiah-11:12[ And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. ]
Isaiah-13:2 [ Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand,
that they may go into the gates of the nobles. ]
Isaiah-18:3[ All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth
up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. ]
Isaiah-30:17[ One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee:
till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. ]
Isaiah-31:9[ And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid
of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. ]
Isaiah-49:22[ Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up
my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall
be carried upon their shoulders. ]
Isaiah-59:19[ So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of
the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a
standard against him. ]
Isaiah-62:10[ Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up
the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. ]
Jeremiah-4:6[ Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north,
and a great destruction. ]
Jeremiah-4:21[ How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? ]
Jeremiah-50:2[ Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal
not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
confounded, her images are broken in pieces. ]
Jeremiah-51:12[ Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the
watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake
against the inhabitants of Babylon. ]
Jeremiah-51:27[ Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the
nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;
appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. ]
Job:8:11[ Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? ]This is the
only time the word "flag" is written in the whole Bible, and it pertains to a plant.
Numbers-1:52[ And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and
every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts. ]
Numbers-2:2[ Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign
of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. ]
Numbers-2:3[ And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the
camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain
of the children of Judah. ]
Numbers-2:10[ On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies:
and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. ]
Numbers-2:18[ On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies:
and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. ]
Numbers-2:25[ The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the
captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. ]
Numbers-10:14[ In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to
their armies:and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ]
Numbers-10:18[ And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over
his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. ]
Numbers-10:22[ And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their
armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. ]
Numbers-10:25[ And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward
of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. ]
Psalms-60:4[ Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of
the truth. Selah. ]
Song Of Solomon-2:4[ He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. ]
Zechariah-9:16[ And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for
they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. ]
