2 Maccabees 14:41-43

Common English Bible

⁴¹ When the mob was about to take the tower, forcing open the door of the courtyard, they commanded that the door be set on fire. Razis was surrounded on every side, so he fell on his own sword. ⁴² He wanted to die bravely rather than fall into the hands of sinners and suffer outrages unworthy of his own high birth. ⁴³ But the blow didn’t strike its mark because of the haste of the struggle and the surge of the mob through the doors. Running with honor out onto the wall, he courageously threw himself down into the mob.