2 Maccabees 13:5-7

Wycliffe Bible

⁵ Soothly in the same place was a tower of fifty cubits, having on each side a gathering of ashes (or full of ashes); this was beholding into a ditch.

⁶ From thence he commanded the sacrileger, or (the) cursed man, for to be cast down into (the) ashes, when all men putted forth him to the death [or all men putting him forth to the death].

⁷ And by such (a) law it befell the breaker of (the) law for to die, neither (that) Menelaus for to be given to (the) earth. And forsooth justly enough;