(Devarim 1:18-19) "And I charged you at that time with all the things that you shall do (i.e., regarding the ten differences between monetary and capital litigations).
And we journeyed from Chorev and we went through all that great and fearful desert.": They saw snakes as (large as) the beams of the olive press and scorpions as large as bows stretched out before them. Now does this not follow a fortiori, viz.: If I have subdued before them such unnatural things, how much more so, things which are within the province of nature, (like the seven nations)! Thus, "And we journeyed from Chorev, etc."
(דברים א יח) וָאֲצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם בָּעֵת הַהִוא לֵאמֹר אֶת כָּל הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲשׂוּן, אֵלּוּ עֲשָׂרָה דְבָרִים שֶׁבֵּין דִּינֵי מָמוֹנוֹת לְדִינֵי נְפָשׁוֹת.
(Devarim 1:18-19) "And I charged you at that time with all the things that you shall do (i.e., regarding the ten differences between monetary and capital litigations).
(דברים א יט) וַנִּסַּע מֵחֹרֵב וַנֵּלֶךְ אֵת כָּל הַמִּדְבָּר הַגָּדוֹל וְהַנּוֹרָא הַהוּא, בְּנֵי אָדָם שֶׁרָאוּ נְחָשִׁים כְּקוֹרוֹת וְעַקְרַבִּים כִּקְשָׁתוֹת סְרוּחִים וּמֻשְׁלָכִים לִפְנֵיהֶם, עֲלֵיהֶם הוּא אוֹמֵר אֵת כָּל הַמִּדְבָּר הַגָּדוֹל וְהַנּוֹרָא הַהוּא? וַהֲלֹא דְבָרִים קַל וָחֹמֶר: וּמָה דְבָרִים שֶׁאֵינָם הִימִירִין – כְּבַשְׁתִּים לִפְנֵיהֶם, דְּבָרִים שֶׁהֵם הִימִירִין עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה! לְכָךְ נֶאֱמַר וַנִּסַּע מֵחֹרֵב.
And we journeyed from Chorev and we went through all that great and fearful desert.": They saw snakes as (large as) the beams of the olive press and scorpions as large as bows stretched out before them. Now does this not follow a fortiori, viz.: If I have subdued before them such unnatural things, how much more so, things which are within the province of nature, (like the seven nations)! Thus, "And we journeyed from Chorev, etc."