# to keep the palace

Here the word "keep" means to care for. AT: "to care for the palace" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# at the last house

This refers to the last house they would come to when leaving the city. AT: "at the last house as they were leaving the city" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

# Kerethites ... Pelethites

Translate the names of these people groups the same as you did in [2 Samuel 8:18](../08/15.md).

# Gittites

Translate the name of this people group the same as you did in [2 Samuel 6:10](../06/10.md).

# six hundred men

"600 men" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])