2 Maccabees 14:41-43

New Catholic Bible

⁴¹ When the troops were on the point of capturing the tower and were forcing open the outer gate, they called for fire to burn down the doors. Razis, finding himself surrounded on all sides, turned his sword on himself, ⁴² preferring to die nobly rather than fall into the hands of evil men and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth.

⁴³ However, in the heat of the struggle he failed to hit his mark exactly. So while the troops rushed in through the doors, he quickly ran up to the top of the wall and courageously threw himself down into the crowd.