1 Chronicles 9:19

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.