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2 Kings 8:18

And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David were the princes.

Challoner: The Cerethi and PhelethiThe king's guards.-- Ibid.

Challoner: PrincesLiterally priests. (Cohen) So called, by a title of honour, and not from exercising the priestly functions.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Banaias autem filius Jojadæ super Cerethi et Phelethi : filii autem David sacerdotes erant.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ Βαναὶ υἱὸς Ἰανὰκ σύμβουλος, καὶ ὁ Χελεθθεὶ καὶ ὁ Φελεττεί· υἱοὶ Δαυεὶδ αὐλάρχαι ἦσαν.
Hebrew (WLC): וּבְנָיָ֨הוּ֙ בֶּן יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע וְהַכְּרֵתִ֖י וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑י וּבְנֵ֥י דָוִ֖ד כֹּהֲנִ֥ים הָיֽוּ

Haydock's commentary

The Cerethi and Phelithi. The king's guards. (Challoner)

They were Philistines, and had attached themselves to David while he was at Geth, continuing always faithful to him. We read of them in the Vulgate, under the reign of Joas, 4 Kings xi. 19. David selected some out of all Israel, towards the end of his reign, 1 Paralipomenon xxvii.

Princes: literally, priests; (Cohen) so called, by a title of honour, and not for exercising the priestly functions. (Challoner)

Sanctius translates, they "were like priests." The book of 1 Paralipomenon (xviii. 17,) explains, were chief about the king. Septuagint, "masters of the palace." David kept them near his person, and employed them as he thought proper: Bertram thinks, in embassies, till after the revolt of Absalom, when Ira took their place, chap. xx. 26. (Calmet)

Protestants, "David's sons were chief rulers." Chaldean, "grandees;" (Haydock) "ministers." (Grotius) (Du Hamel)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.