5
Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged down into the ashes.
6
And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
7
Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:
8
For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
9
Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his father's time.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.