2 Maccabees 5:9
“Menelaus, however, when under Antiochus Eupator he was planning deceit in the same way as before, the King of kings stirred up the spirit of Antiochus against this sinner, and at the suggestion of Lysias, who said that he was the cause of all the evils, he ordered that, according to their custom, he be seized and put…”
9Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians, and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred:
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7Howbeit for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame for the reward of his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.
8In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
— 2 Maccabees 5:9 —
10And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulchre with his fathers.
11Now when this that was done came to the king’s car, he thought that Judea had revolted: whereupon removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,