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

New Revised Standard Version
preferring to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of sinners and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth.

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

New American Bible
preferring to die nobly rather than fall into the hands of vile men and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth.

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

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

2 Maccabees 14:40
For he thought by ensnaring him to hurt the Jews very much.

2 Maccabees 14:41
Now as the multitude sought to rush into his house, and to break open the door, and to set fire to it, when he was ready to be taken, he struck himself with his sword:

2 Maccabees 14:43
But whereas through haste he missed of giving a sure wound, and the crowd was breaking into the doors, he ran boldly to the wall, and manfully threw himself down to the crowd:

2 Maccabees 14:44
But they quickly making room for his fall, he came upon the midst of the neck.