And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Koran. — Comp. 1 Chronicles 26:1, which makes “Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph” a guild of warders under David.
Ebiasaph — “The Father (i.e., God) gathered,” is a fuller form of Asaph, “He gathered.”
And his brethren, of the house of his father. — That is, the Korahites, as is immediately explained: his kinsmen belonging to his father-house or clan.
The work of the service (of Shallum), — That is, of the guild so called, is defined as that of “wardens of the thresholds of the tent,” that is, of the Temple, which had taken the place of the old Tent of Meeting.
And their fathers, being over the host of the Lord, were keepers of the entry. — “Their fathers” are the ancestors of the Korahite clan of Shallura.
The host of the Lord. — Or, rather, the encampment of Jehovah, means the tabernacle, or Tent of Tryst, which had only one entrance, over which, according to this passage — the Pentateuch is silent — the house of Shallum stood guard. 2 Chronicles 31:2 applies the same archaic nomenclature to the Temple in Hezekiah’s reign, speaking of “the gates of the camps of Iahweh.”