Verse 11
11. He was above them The exact sense of the latter half of this verse is uncertain . The English translators understood the עליחם to refer to the false gods, and supplying he was would most naturally make these gods rather than the Egyptians the subject of the verb זדו , acted proudly . But inasmuch as something is to be supplied, it seems better to carry over into this last sentence of the verse the thought expressed in the גדול מן of the preceding line . It seems probable that some word or words have fallen out before בדבר , in the thing, and we take the sentiment to be: Jehovah is greater than all the gods, for he showed this in all the things wherein the Egyptians acted proudly against the Israelites . Comp . Nehemiah 9:10. Reference is to the oppression and persecution which Israel received from the Egyptians, and the pursuit which ended at the Red Sea, where Jehovah triumphed gloriously .
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