2 Maccabees 14:42 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:

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He wanted to die bravely rather than fall into the hands of sinners and suffer outrages unworthy of his own high birth.

choosing to prefer to die nobly rather than to become subject to sinners, or to suffer unworthy injustices against his birth.

Choosing to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the wicked, and to suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth.

preferring to die with honor rather than suffer humiliation at the hands of evil men.

choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness.

because he was from an important family and wanted to die with honor, rather than at the hands of godless men.