Three times they returned and three times they fell. The first, in the days of Sancheriv, viz. (Isaiah 31:1) "Woe unto those who go down to Egypt for help!" The second, in the days of Yochanan ben Kareach, (Jeremiah 42:16-17) "And it shall be, the sword which you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt and the famine which you worry over will follow after you in Egypt, and there will you die." The third, in the days of Trajanus. Three times they returned and three times they fell. As it is written, (Hoshea 7:11) "Ephraim is a silly dove, without a heart. They have called to Egypt, etc.