﴿ فَأَخَذَهُ ٱللَّهُ نَكَالَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ وَٱلْأُولَىٰٓ ﴾

“And thereupon God took him to task, [and made him] a warning example in the life to come as well as in this world.”

So God seized him He destroyed him by drowning him as punishment for the latter that is to say these last words of his and for the former that is to say his saying previously ‘I do not know of any god for you other than me’ Q. 2838 — and between the two claims made by Pharaoh was an interval of forty years.