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to keep the palace
"to take care of the palace" or "in charge of the palace"
he put them in a house under guard
AT: "he put them in a guarded house because they had slept with his son, Absalom, and were now defiled" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
widows
These are women whose husbands have died.