Tabernacle Namely, in time past, when the tabernacle was standing, before the temple was built. Their fathers The Kohathites. Being over the host of the Lord When the Israelites were in the wilderness, encamped in a military manner round about the tabernacle, with whom these were then placed. Keepers of the entry Of the veil by which they entered into the tabernacle; which he calls the entry, because then there were no gates. The meaning is, that all things were now restored to their primitive order; and the several persons took those offices upon them, which their ancestors had before them.
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1 Chronicles 9:19
19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gatesb of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.