Cross References 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 13:3 Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. 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 13:6 From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death. 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. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 13:3Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. 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 13:6 From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death. 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. Context 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. 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.… |
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