1 Maccabees 6:43–46

And Eleazar Avaran saw one of the beasts armed with royal breastplates, and he was higher than all the ⁽other⁽ beasts, so that it appeared as though the king were upon it; and he gave himself to deliver his people and to acquire an everlasting name; and he ran upon it courageously into the midst of the phalanx, and slew on the right hand and on the left, and they parted asunder from him on this side and on that; and he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and slew it; and it fell to the earth upon him, and he died there.