2 Maccabees 13:7

7 Such a death it happened that that wicked man died, not having so much as burial in the earth, and that most justly.

2 Maccabees 13:7 In-Context

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 hung 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 that wicked man died, not having so much as burial in the earth, and that most justly.

8 For inasmuch as he had committed many sins against 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.