1 Chronicles 9:19

Shallum . Marked as a different person from the former of the same name, by the description son of Kore , etc. The pedigree here given enables us to identify the person intended as Shelemiah or Moshelemiah.. Keepers of the gates of the tabernacle… of the entry . These are descriptions of "service," not synonymous with those of 1 Chronicles 9:17 and 1 Chronicles 9:18 , where the words וְהַשְּׁעַרִים and בְּשַׁעַר are found, in place of those used here, viz. שֹׁמְרֵי הַסִּפִים לָאֹחֶל and שֹׁמְרֵי הַמָּבוֹא . They designate the care of the inner entrances of the sacred building. Their fathers were keepers of the entrance to the tabernacle , as these to the inner doors (margin, "thresholds") of the temple. So the following verse points the times of "the fathers."