Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Chronicles 17:6

"In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?" — 1 Chronicles 17:6 (ASV)

Wherever. — As long as ... Literally, In all that ...

With (in) all Israel. — Samuel, in (among) all the sons of Israel. (Deuteronomy 23:15.)

The judges of Israel. — Samuel has tribes. The term “judges” would be more intelligible in later times, and has probably been substituted for the more difficult original expression. The following clause seems to refer to individual rulers, but is not really incompatible with a reference to the ascendency or hegemony of different tribes at different epochs of Israelite history. (1 Chronicles 28:4; Psalms 78:67–68.) The word “tribe” (shçbet) might only denote clan, or house, as in Judges 20:12 (Heb.).

To feed. — Shepherd, or tend—i.e., to govern. (Compare to Psalms 78:71.)