Exode 18:11

La Bible Ostervald

Maintenant je connais que l'Éternel est plus grand que tous les dieux; car lorsqu'ils se sont élevés avec orgueil, il l'a emporté sur eux.

Parallel Translations

Louis Segond (1910)
Je reconnais maintenant que l'Eternel est plus grand que tous les dieux; car la m�chancet� des Egyptiens est retomb�e sur eux.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Je connais maintenant que l'Eternel est grand par-dessus tous les Dieux, car en cela m�me en quoi ils se sont enorgueillis, il a eu le dessus sur eux.

Darby's French Translation
Maintenant je connais que l'�ternel est plus grand que tous les dieux; car en cela m�me en quoi ils ont agi pr�somptueusement, il a �t� au-dessus d'eux.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Now I: Exodus 9:16, 1 Kings 17:24, 2 Kings 5:15

the Lord: Exodus 15:11, 1 Chronicles 16:25, 2 Chronicles 2:5, Psalms 95:3, Psalms 97:9, Psalms 135:5

in the thing: Exodus 1:10, Exodus 1:16, Exodus 1:22, Exodus 5:2, Exodus 5:7, Exodus 14:8, Exodus 14:18

proudly: Exodus 9:17, Exodus 10:3, 1 Samuel 2:3, Nehemiah 9:10, Nehemiah 9:16, Nehemiah 9:29, Job 40:11, Job 40:12, Psalms 31:23, Psalms 119:21, Daniel 4:37, Luke 1:51, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:4 - I will be Numbers 33:4 - upon their gods Joshua 2:9 - I know Joshua 22:22 - Lord God 2 Samuel 22:27 - show thyself unsavoury 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine 1 Chronicles 17:20 - none Psalms 10:2 - The wicked Psalms 31:20 - from Psalms 46:10 - know Psalms 66:7 - let Psalms 76:10 - Surely Psalms 92:8 - art most Psalms 96:4 - For the Psalms 136:2 - the God Psalms 138:6 - but the proud Isaiah 33:5 - The Lord Daniel 5:20 - when Luke 18:14 - every John 10:29 - is greater Acts 13:17 - and with Romans 9:17 - that 1 Corinthians 3:19 - He Philippians 1:12 - rather

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods,.... He knew the Lord before, and that he was the only true God, and greater than all that were so called; but now he had a fresh instance of it, a clear proof and demonstration of it, and so more plainly and fully knew it, and was assured of it, that he was greater than all the idols of the Gentiles, and particularly than the gods of the Egyptians; since he had saved his people Israel out of their hands, and when they could not protect and defend the Egyptians neither from plagues nor from destruction; nay, could not secure themselves, being all destroyed by the mighty Jehovah, see Exodus 12:12, as also that he is greater than all that are called gods, kings, princes, and civil magistrates, than Pharaoh and all his nobles, generals, and captains, who were destroyed by him: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly, he was above them; the idol gods, the gods of the Egyptians, the evil demons, Satan and his principalities, who influenced them, presuming and boasting by their magicians what they could do; but in those things Jehovah in the wonders he wrought appeared to be above them; they were overcome by him, and obliged to acknowledge the finger of God; and this sense stands best connected with the preceding clause: or else in those things, in which the Egyptians dealt proudly with the Israelites, pursuing after them in the pride and vanity of their minds, and giving out that they should overtake them and divide the spoil, and satisfy their lust upon them, when God blew with his wind upon them, the sea covered them, and they sunk as lead in the mighty waters, see

Exodus 15:9, and to the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red sea, the Jews commonly apply this: thus the Targum of Jonathan,

"wherein the Egyptians dealt wickedly in judging Israel, by the waters, judgment returned upon them that they might be judged by the waters;''

and to the same sense Jarchi: they suppose here was a just retaliation, that as the Egyptians drowned the Hebrew infants in the waters of the Nile, they were in righteous judgment drowned in the Red sea; this is the very thing, or is the same way they in their pride and malice dealt with the people of Israel; God dealt with them, and showed himself to be both "against them" o, as it may be rendered, and above them.

o עליהם "contra eos", Pagninus, Montanus; "contra illos", V. L. Tigurine version; so Reinbech "de accent". Heb. p. 314.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Greater than all gods - See Exodus 15:11. The words simply indicate a conviction of the incomparable might and majesty of Yahweh.

For in ... above them - i. e. the greatness of Yahweh was shown in those transactions wherein the Egyptians had thought to deal haughtily and cruelly against the Israelites. Jethro refers especially to the destruction of the Egyptian host in the Red Sea.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 18:11. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods — Some think that Jethro was now converted to the true God; but it is very probable that he enjoyed this blessing before he knew any thing of Moses, for it is not likely that Moses would have entered into an alliance with this family had they been heathens. Jethro no doubt had the true patriarchal religion.

Wherein they dealt proudly — Acting as tyrants over the people of God; enslaving them in the most unprincipled manner, and still purposing more tyrannical acts. He was above them - he showed himself to be infinitely superior to all their gods, by the miracles which he wrought. Various translations have been given of this clause; the above I believe to be the sense.