Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation People accused of crimes against the gods or of any other serious crime are taken there and thrown down to their death. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death. 2 Maccabees 13:4But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place. 2 Maccabees 13:5 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. 2 Maccabees 13:7 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. 2 Maccabees 13:8 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. Context 2 Maccabees 13…5Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down. 6From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death. 7And 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.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 13:4 But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place. 2 Maccabees 13:5 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. 2 Maccabees 13:7 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. 2 Maccabees 13:8 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. |
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