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3 Kings 16:18

And Zambri seeing that the city was about to be taken, went into the palace and burnt himself with the king's house: and he died

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Videns autem Zambri quod expugnanda esset civitas, ingressus est palatium, et succendit se cum domo regia : et mortuus est
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἐγενήθη ὡς εἶδεν Ζαμβρεὶ ὅτι προκατείλημπται αὐτοῦ ἡ πόλις, καὶ πορεύονται εἰς ἄντρον τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ ἐνεπύρισεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ ἀπέθανεν·
Hebrew (WLC): וַיְהִ֞י כִּרְא֤וֹת זִמְרִי֙ כִּֽי נִלְכְּדָ֣ה הָעִ֔יר וַיָּבֹ֖א אֶל אַרְמ֣וֹן בֵּית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיִּשְׂרֹ֨ף עָלָ֧יו אֶת בֵּֽית מֶ֛לֶךְ בָּאֵ֖שׁ וַיָּמֹֽת

Haydock's commentary

Himself. Hebrew may also signify, "he (Amri) burnt him."

Zambri, his rival. But the other sense is more natural. (Calmet)

Thus Sardanapalus chose to destroy himself, with all his riches, (Justin i.; Atheneus xii. 7.) to prevent the dead body from being insulted. It was for this reason that Sylla, the first of the Cornelian family, ordered his remains to be burnt. (Cicero, Leg. i.) (Tirinus)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.