2 Maccabees 13:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

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.

⁶ From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.