2 Maccabees 9:4–10

⁴Then swelling with anger, he thought to avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him flee. Therefore commanded he his ^hchariot man to drive ⁱwithout ceasing, and to dispatch the journey, the judgment of ^jGod now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem, and make it ^ka common burying place of the Jews. ⁵But the Lord ^lAlmighty, the God of Israel, smote him with an incurable and invisible plague: for as soon as he had spoken these words, ^ma pain of the bowels that was remediless came upon him, and sore torments of the inner parts; ^6mmand that most justly: for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange torments. ⁷Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, ⁿbreathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained. ⁸And thus he that a little afore thought ^ohe might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and ^pweigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in ^qa horse litter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God. ⁹So that ^rthe worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man, and whiles he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army. ¹⁰And the man, that thought a little afore ^she could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stink.