2 Maccabees 5:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷ But he didn’t gain the government; instead, he received shame as a result of his plot and again fled as a fugitive into Ammonite country. ⁸ Finally, he came to a miserable end. Brought up on charges before Aretas the Arab tyrant, he fled from city to city, chased by everyone. Hated as a traitor to the laws and loathed as the murderer of his native land and citizens, he was cast ashore in Egypt. ⁹ He, who had exiled many from their homeland, died in a foreign land after he sailed to the Spartans to seek protection because of their kinship.