2 Maccabees 5:7

7 However, for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame as the reward for his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.

2 Maccabees 5:7 In-Context

5 Now when there had gone forth a false rumor that Antiochus was dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. And those who were upon the walls being driven back and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle.

6 But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to win the day from those of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him, but thinking they had been his enemies whom he conquered, and not his countrymen.

7 However, for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame as the reward for his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.

8 In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws; and, being held in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.

9 Thus he that had driven many out of their country, perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians and thinking there to find succor by reason of his kindred.