2 Maccabees 5:9

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.

2 Maccabees 5:9 In-Context

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.

10 And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all nor sepulcher with his fathers.

11 Now when this that was done came to the king's ear, he thought that Judea had revolted. Thereupon, removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,