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But the King of kings moved Antiochus' mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
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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.
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And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
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Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:
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For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
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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.
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Which things when Judas perceived, he commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord night and day, that if ever at any other time, he would now also help them, being at the point to be put from their law, from their country, and from the holy temple:
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And that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.
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So when they had all done this together, and besought the merciful Lord with weeping and fasting, and lying flat upon the ground three days long, Judas, having exhorted them, commanded they should be in a readiness.
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And Judas, being apart with the elders, determined, before the king's host should enter into Judea, and get the city, to go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.
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So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world, and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he camped by Modin: