예레미야 2:19의 미드라쉬

(Lam. 2, 2) The Lord hath swallowed up unsparingly all the habitations of Jacob. When Ravin came to Babylon he said in the name of Jochanan: "These refer to the sixty myriads of cities which King Jannai possessed on the royal mount; for R. Juda said in the name of R. Assi that King Jannai had sixty myriads of cities on the royal mound, the population of each equalled the number that went out of Egypt, except that of three cities in which that number was doubled. And these three cities were K'far Bish (the village of evil), K'far Shichlayim (village of water-cresses), and K'far Dichraya (the village of male children). K'far Bish it was called because there was no hospice for the reception of strangers therein; K'far Shichlaiim, it was called, because the inhabitants derived their support from that herb; K'far Dichraya, it was called, according to the opinion of Jochanan, because its women first gave birth to boys and afterwards to girls, and then left off bearing. "I have seen that place," said Ulla, "and am sure that it could not hold even sixty myriads of sticks." When a Sadducee remarked to Chanina concerning the above: "Ye do not speak the truth," the latter's response was: "It is written (Jer. 2, 19) The inheritance of a deer; i.e., as the skin of a deer [if once flayed off] cannot again cover its body (it shrinks), so also the land of Israel unoccupied by its rightful owners contracts."