Exodus 5:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

LORD. One of the 134 places where Jehovah in the Primitive Text was altered to Adonai. See App-32.

wherefore... ? why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6).

We, like Moses, are full of similar questions, to our sin and sorrow.

evil entreated. Hebrew Idiom suffered to be evil en-treated. Hebrew. Ra'a. App-44. See note on Exodus 4:2.

Exodus 5:22

22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?