2 Maccabees 13:3-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Menelaus also joined them, and with great duplicity kept urging Antiochus on, not for the welfare of his country, but in the hope of being established in office. 4 But the King of kings(A) aroused the anger of Antiochus against the scoundrel. When the king was shown by Lysias that Menelaus was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered him to be taken to Beroea[a] and executed there in the customary local method. 5 There is at that place a tower seventy-five feet high, full of ashes,[b] with a circular rim sloping down steeply on all sides toward the ashes. 6 Anyone guilty of sacrilege or notorious for certain other crimes is brought up there and then hurled down to destruction. 7 In such a manner was Menelaus, that transgressor of the law, fated to die, deprived even of burial. 8 It was altogether just that he who had committed so many sins against the altar with its pure fire and ashes, in ashes should meet his death.
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