4 But the King of kings stirred up the anger of Antiochus against the wicked wretch. When Lysias informed him that this man was the cause of all the evils, the king commanded to bring him to Beroea, and to put him to death in the way customary in that place. (WEB) 5 Now there is in that place a tower that is fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had all around it a circular rim sloping steeply on every side into the ashes. (WEB) 6 Here one who is guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes is pushed down to destruction. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 13:4–6
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