﴿ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ قَوْمًا عَالِينَ ﴾

“unto Pharaoh and his great ones; but these behaved with arrogance, for they were people wont to glorify [only] themselves.”

to Pharaoh and his council; but they disdained to believing in them and in God and they were a tyrannical folk subjugating the Children of Israel through oppression.