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1 Chronicles 27:5

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The third army commander, as chief for the third month, was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest. There were 24,000 men in his division.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

KJV

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.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 27

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
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” 2Ki 25:18.

This site's exposition

the children of Perez

on 1 Chronicles 27:3-9

Of the twelve captains named month by month, two carry weight beyond the list. Benaiah at the third month is the same man already famous from the mighty men, mighty among the thirty and set above the thirty, so the roster reaches back to a name the reader already knows. Asahel heads the fourth course though he died at the very start of David's reign by Abner's hand; the honor passes to his son Zebadiah, who commands in his father's place.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

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,” etc. 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.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • שַׂ֣ר[was] [the] commander of

    sarH8269 →421 times

  • הַצָּבָ֤אthe army

    hatzava'H6635 →485 times

  • הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙<the> third

    hashelishiH7992 →107 times

  • לַחֹ֣דֶשׁfor the month

    lachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֔י<the> third

    hashelishiH7992 →107 times

  • בְּנָיָ֧הוּBenaiah

    benayahuH1141 →42 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוֹיָדָ֛עJehoiada

    yehoyada'H3077 →51 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • רֹ֑אשׁchief

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • וְעַל֙and [were] with

    vealH5921 →5755 times

  • מַחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹdivision his

    machaluktoH4256 →42 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • וְאַרְבָּעָ֖הand four

    vearbaahH702 →318 times

  • אָֽלֶף׃thousand

    ʾalefH505 →505 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 18:17

    Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:18

      Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

    • 2 Samuel 15:18

      and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

    • 1 Kings 2:34–35

      So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.

    • 1 Chronicles 23:28

      but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and…

    • Zephaniah 2:5

      Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will…

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.

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