“Banner also means ‘ensign,’ which is found earlier in [Isaiah] 5:26 and 11:10. Anciently, Israel’s families and clans gathered with their own banner around the temple of Jehovah (Num. 2:2; Mosiah 2:5–6). Similarly, members of God’s kingdom of this dispensation will figuratively lift up the gospel banner upon the mountain (Isa. 18:3; 30:17), which symbolizes the temple, and the nations of the earth will seek after it” (Parry et al., Understanding Isaiah, 131).