1 Esdræ 27:5

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Dux quoque turmæ tertiæ in mense tertio, erat Banaias filius Jojadæ sacerdos : et in divisione sua viginti quatuor millia.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Dux quoque turm� terti� in mense tertio erat Banaias filius Jojad� sacerdos: et in divisione sua viginti quatuor millia.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Dux quoque turmae tertiae in mense tertio erat Banaias filius Ioiadae sacerdotis, et in divisione sua viginti quattuor milia;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Benaiah: Or, "Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest:" it was Jehoiada, and not Benaiah, who was a priest. 1 Chronicles 18:17, 1 Kings 4:4

chief priest: or, principal officer, 1 Kings 4:5

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 23:20 - Benaiah 1 Kings 1:8 - Zadok 1 Chronicles 11:22 - Benaiah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A chief priest - Rather, “the chief priest” - an expression by which is meant, not the high priest, but probably the high priest’s deputy, who is sometimes called “the second priest” 2 Kings 25:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 27:5. 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 הכהן haccohen, which generally signifies priest, should be translated here a principal officer so the margin has it. But, in the Old Testament, כהן 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.