6
There they all push to destruction any man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes.
7
By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.
8
And this was eminently just; because he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he met his death in ashes.
9
The king with barbarous arrogance was coming to show the Jews things far worse than those that had been done in his father's time.
10
But when Judas heard of this, he ordered the people to call upon the Lord day and night, now if ever to help those who were on the point of being deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple,
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.