doorkeepers

People who guard access to important or restricted places. Doorkeepers were appointed in the Temple as “keepers of the threshold” to collect money from the people (2Kgs 22:4). Levites were appointed as gatekeepers for the Ark (1Chr 15:23-24). Eunuchs were doorkeepers at the palace of the Persian king (Esth 2:21), and a woman was doorkeeper at the house of King Ishbosheth (2Sam 4:6; John 18:16-17; Acts 12:13).