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.
Related Commentaries of 1 Chronicles 27:5
1 Chronicles 27:5
5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chiefb priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.