Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 18:11

11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly, he was above them.

viz. More clearly and by certain experience, as that phrase signifies, Gen. 22. 12. 1 King. 17. 18, 24. For otherwise it is more than probable, that Iethro had the knowledge of the true God before this time, not onely because he was the great grand-child of Abraham, but also because of his long conversation with a person of so great knowledge and wisdom and piety as Moses was.

Either 1. their false Gods, who wrought strange things in and by their servants the Magitians, who contended with Moses, and proudly boasted of their skill as not a whit inferiour to that of Moses, but at last were forced to yield up the cause, Exod. 8. 19. or rather 2. the Egyptians, spoken of ver. 10. who dealt proudly and scornfully and tyrannically with the Israelites, but God shewed himself to be above them and above their King, though Pharaoh would not own him for his Superiour, Exod. 5. 2. but lift up his horn against God and against his people: but the Lord brought that proud Prince upon his knees, and forced him oft to confess his faults and to become suppliant to Moses for deliverance from the plagues, and at last, when he continued incorrigible, he drowned him in the Sea.

Marginal references: chap. 1. 10, [illegible: 1+ letters]6, 22. and 5. [illegible: 1 word]. & 14. 18.