2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 20:26Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.
Douay-Rheims

וְגַ֗ם עִירָא֙ הַיָּ֣אִרִ֔י הָיָ֥ה כֹהֵ֖ן לְדָוִֽד׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

How are we to interpret the statement that ‘Sadok and Abiathar the priests, and Jodai the son of Jepher, was a priest of David’ (2 Sam. 20:26)? Sadok and Abiathar held the position of high priests, while Jodai, also a priest, resided in the king's palace, regularly attending the Divine altar and conducting the king's sacrifices.

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Passages read together with this verse.

2 Sam 23:38Ira the Jethrite, Gareb also a Jethrite;
Ex 2:14But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known?
Gen 41:45And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue the saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt.
1 Chr 11:40Ira a Jethrite, Gareb a Jethrite,
Ex 2:16And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.
Judg 10:4Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of Galaad.
Judg 10:5And Jair died, and was buried in the place which is called Camon.
2 Chr 35:15And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun, the prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every gate, so as not to depart one moment from their service, and therefore their brethren the Levites prepared meats for them.