# doorkeepers

"guards" or "gatekeepers"

# Shallum ... Akkub ... Talmon ... Ahiman ... Kore ... Ebiasaph

These are all the names of men. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# they stood guard at the king's gate on the east side for the camp of Levi's descendants

"Levi's descendants guarded the king's gate on the east side of their camp"

# Korahites

descendants of Korah (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# the door to the tent ... the entrance

These phrases both refer to the entrance of the tent of meeting, or the tabernacle.

# the tent

This is a metonym for the second temple, which the people built after they returned from Babylon. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])