In all the 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 feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
Spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, х shibTeey (H7626), tribes; but in 1 Chronicles 17:6 the word is shopªTeey (H8199), judges],
Whom I commanded to feed my people Israel. [The difference may have arisen from the error of a copyist, who mistook a pe (p) for a beth (b); but it has been suggested that "tribes" is used here for 'sceptres' (cf. Genesis 49:10) = sceptre-bearers, rulers; or the tribes and the judge are viewed as one (Hengstenberg, 'Christology,' 1:, p 129).]