5
Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.
6
From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.
7
And by such a law it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of the law was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth.
8
And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many sins against the altar of God, the fire and ashes of which were holy: he was condemned to die in ashes.
9
But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.