Comentário sobre II Reis 11:5

One third of you of those who come on Shabbos. The watches would be renewed on Shabbos,⁸See Mishnayos Maseches Taanis 2:6,7. There were twenty-four families of kohanim and Leviyim that served in rotation in the Beis Hamikdosh. They changed places on Shabbos. the watches of the kohanim and Leviyim. one would enter and one would leave. He ordered the watch that was entering, to divide into three parts, one third in the king’s palace, to guard that no one rise up against the king to assassinate him.⁹I.e., Yoash.

one third in the Sur Gate, the eastern gate of the Temple court, the Hasirah Gate. [6.] And one third [will be] at the gate behind the runners. That too was one of the gates of the Temple court. [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “בְּתַרְעָא דְּבַתְרוֹהִי תַּרְעָא רָהֲטַיָּא, [=the gate which was behind the Gate of the Runners].” Through the Gate of the Runners one would go from the royal palace to the Beis Hamikdosh, as it is stated at the end of this matter. And that gate of the Temple court, about which it is stated at the gate behind the runners,¹⁰See below, v. 6. was called in Divrei Hayomim, “the Gate of the Sippim.”¹¹II Divrei Hayomim 23:4.