Exodus 1:9

He said. “He” would be an early Eighteenth Dynasty king, either Almiose, the great liberator of Egypt, or his son Amenhotep I (1546-1525 B.C.), in case he was not the same individual as the king living at the time of Moses’ birth. However, if he was the king in whose palace Moses was brought up, then Thutmose I (1525-1508 B.C.), the father of Hatshepsut, is meant.

Unto his people. The king was undoubtedly conferring with his ministers and counselors. In the few documents that shed some light on the war of liberation, the statement is twice made that the kings Sekenenre and Kamose called their counselors together before taking action. Although Kamose had already made up his mind, and did not follow their counsel, he did discuss the matter with his ministers.

More and mightier. Pharaoh was probably exaggerating, since Egypt had been a great nation for centuries. It was the sort of exaggeration in which unprincipled persons indulge by way of justifying an extreme and unreasonable course of action.