2 Maccabees 13:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

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.