2 Maccabees 5:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ At length Jason came to a miserable end. After being accused before Aretas,^[a] the ruler of the Arabs, he fled from city to city, hounded by all, detested as a transgressor of the laws, and hated as the executioner of his country and his compatriots, until he was cast ashore in Egypt. ⁹ From there he crossed the sea to Sparta, where he hoped to obtain sanctuary because of the Spartans’ kinship^[b] with him. There, he who had sent into exile so many children of his homeland, died himself in exile. ¹⁰ Furthermore, this man who had cast out so many to be unburied now had no one to mourn for him, with no funeral of any kind and no place in the tomb of his ancestors.^[c]