2 Maccabees 9:3-5

Wycliffe Bible

³ And when he came about Ecbatana, he knew what things were done against Nicanor and Timothy (or Timotheus).

⁴ Forsooth he was enhanced in wrath, and deemed that he might (re)turn into (the) Jews the wrong of them, that had driven him (away). And therefore he bade (or he ordered) the chariot to be led in haste, doing journey without ceasing; for why heavenly doom drove, or constrained, him, for that he spake so proudly, that he shall come to Jerusalem, and to make it a gathering of (the) sepulchre(s) of (the) Jews. [Forsooth he wroth deemed in wrath, him for to be able to turn into Jews the wrong of them, that drove him (away). And therefore he bade the chariot for to be led, without ceasing doing journey; heavenly doom driving, or constraining, for that he spake so proudly, him coming to Jerusalem, and to making it the gathering of a sepulchre of Jews.]

⁵ But the Lord God of Israel, that beholdeth all things, smote him with a wound incurable and invisible; for as he ended this same word, an hard sorrow of entrails took him, and bitter torments of inward things.