2 Maccabees 5:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ However, he failed to seize control of the government. In the end, his treachery only resulted in disgrace for him, and once again he took refuge in the country of the Ammonites.

⁸ At length Jason came to a miserable end. After being accused before Aretas,^[a] the ruler of the Arabs, he fled from city to city, hounded by all, detested as a transgressor of the laws, and hated as the executioner of his country and his compatriots, until he was cast ashore in Egypt. ⁹ From there he crossed the sea to Sparta, where he hoped to obtain sanctuary because of the Spartans’ kinship^[b] with him. There, he who had sent into exile so many children of his homeland, died himself in exile.