Jehoiada in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE
je-hoi'-a-da (yehoyadha`, "Yahweh knows"; Iodae):
(1) Father of Benaiah, the captain of David's body-guard (2
Sam 8:18; 20:23; 23:20,22; 1 Ki 1:8, etc.). Jehoiada was "the
son of a valiant man of Kabzeel" (2 Sam 23:20), but
commentators read with Septuagint and Ewald, "Benaiah (the son
of Jehoiada) a man of valor." Kabzeel was a town belonging to
Judah on the border of Edom in the South (Josh 15:21). In 1 Ch
27:5, we read "Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest,
chief," the Revised Version (British and American), but the
Revised Version margin has "chief minister" wrongly. Yet
Jehoiada is nowhere else called a priest or even a Levite,
though in 1 Ch 12:27 (Hebrew, verse 28) a Jehoiada is
mentioned as a military "leader of the house of Aaron," who
came to David to Hebron with other members of the house of
Levi. In 1 Ch 27:34 there is named among David's counselors,
"Jehoiada the son. of Benaiah," where some commentators would
read with two manuscripts, "Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada"
though Curtis, Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books
of Chronicles, 295, keeps the Massoretic Text...
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