Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 27:5
The third captain of the host for the third month [was] Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.
5. Benaiah ] Cp. 1Ch 11:22 ff.
Jehoiada, a chief priest ] R.V. Jehoiada the priest, chief, (“chief” referring to Benaiah).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
A chief priest – Rather, the chief priest – an expression by which is meant, not the high priest, but probably the high priests deputy, who is sometimes called the second priest 2Ki 25:18.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 5. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest] Why should not this clause be read as it is in the Hebrew? “Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, a captain; and in his course,” c. Or, as the Targum has it, “The third captain of the host for the month Sivan was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, who was constituted a chief.” He is distinguished from Benaiah, the Pirathonite, who was over the eleventh month. Some think that the original word haccohen, which generally signifies priest, should be translated here a principal officer so the margin has it. But, in the Old Testament, cohen signifies both prince and priest; and translating it by the former removes the difficulty from this place, for we well know that Benaiah never was a priest.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
A chief priest; or, the chief priest; or rather, a chief prince, as this Hebrew word is oft used, as Gen 41:45; Gen 47:22; 2Sa 8:18; 20:26; 1Ki 4:5; 2Ki 10:11, and elsewhere. Probably he was not only a captain of this course, but a great officer in the court and state. For although the priests might take up arms in some special cases; yet it is not likely that such were constant officers in the kings army, especially seeing the rest of the captains here named were of other tribes. Besides, neither Benaiah nor Jehoiada was high priest at that time, but Zadok or Abiathar, and before them Abimelech, in whom the priesthood had been for a long time together, even in the days of Samuel, and Saul, and David, and Solomon.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
[See comments on 1Ch 27:2]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) The third captain of the host.Heb., captain of the third host. So Vulg.
Benaiah.See 1Ch. 11:22.
The son of Jehoiada, a chief priest.Rather, son of Jehoiada the priest, as head, viz., of the third army corps. The term chief, or head, belongs to Benaiah, not to his father. But perhaps it is an erroneous gloss on Jehoiada. (Comp. 2Ch. 23:8.) Both LXX. and Vulg. make Benaiah the priest.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
5. A chief priest Rather, as margin, a principal officer; the private counsellor of the king. Comp. 1Ki 4:5, note, and 2Sa 23:23.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Ch 27:5. Benaiaha chief priest As Benaiah was neither high-priest nor second priest, the marginal rendering, namely, principal officer, seems most proper; and the word cohen, is doubtless used for a great officer in a king’s court, from his office of regulating civil affairs. See 2Sa 8:18; 2Sa 20:26. 1Ki 4:5. Job 12:19.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Benaiah. Compare 1Ch 11:22-25. 2Sa 23:20-23.
chief priest. Read “Jehoiada the priest” a head (1Ki 4:4).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
third month
i.e. June.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Benaiah: Or, “Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest:” it was Jehoiada, and not Benaiah, who was a priest. 1Ch 18:17, 1Ki 4:4
chief priest: or, principal officer, 1Ki 4:5
Reciprocal: 2Sa 23:20 – Benaiah 1Ki 1:8 – Zadok 1Ch 11:22 – Benaiah
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 27:5-6. Jehoiada, a chief priest Or rather, a chief prince, as the Hebrew word , cohen, often signifies. For it is certain neither Benaiah nor his father was high-priest or second priest. In his course was Ammizabad his son Who seems to have been his fathers lieutenant, because his father was captain of the kings guard, (2Sa 18:18,) and therefore needed a deputy in the one or other place.