And Shallum the son of Kore
 The same as in ( 1 Chronicles 9:17 ) whose pedigree is traced up to Ebiasaph the son of Korah, see ( Exodus 6:24 ) 
 and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites;
 so called, because they descended from Korah: 
 [were over] the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the
 tabernacle;
 until the temple was built: 
 and their fathers being over the host of the Lord;
 the Levites, who were the Lord's army, and whose service is represented as a warfare, ( Numbers 4:5 ) 
 [were] keepers of the entry;
 into the tabernacle, that none might enter that were impure; or into the court of the priests, excepting priests; or into the holiest of all, as Kimchi suggests.