2 Maccabees 14:42-44

Wycliffe Bible

⁴² choosing to die nobly, rather than to be made subject to sinners, and against his birth for to be led with unworthy wrongs.

⁴³ But when by hast(en)ing he had given wound with uncertain stroke, and (the) companies betwixt (the) doors burst in, he ran again hardily to the wall, and casted down himself manly into the companies. [But when by hasting with uncertain stroke he had given wound, and companies betwixt doors burst in, he running again hardily to the wall, casted down himself manly into the companies.]

⁴⁴ And when they gave swiftly place to his fall [or Which swiftly giving place to his fall], he came by the middle of the knoll,