John Gill Commentary 2 Samuel 7:7

"In all places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?" — 2 Samuel 7:7 (ASV)

In all [the places] in which I have walked with all the children
of Israel (See Gill on 2 Samuel 7:6) on the places mentioned there:

spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel ;
or rather the sceptres of Israel; so the word is rendered, (Genesis 49:10) ; the sceptre bearers, rulers, and governors, whose custom was to carry a sceptre in their hands, as Ben Melech observes; and so in a parallel text, (1 Chronicles 17:6) , it is, "to any of the judges of Israel"; any of those from the times of Moses and Joshua to the times of Saul and David, and this is confirmed by what follows:

whom I commanded to feed my people Israel ;
that is, to rule and govern them, protect and defend them, which cannot be said of the tribes, but of the rulers of them; and the Lord asks this question, whether ever he had said a word to any of those, in all that space of time, expressing anything of this kind:

saying, why build you not me an house of cedar ?
they never were bid to do it, or expostulated with why they did not, or ever reproved for not doing it; therefore why should David think of doing it?