## 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.