2 Maccabees 13:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ Such was the fate suffered by Menelaus,^[a] the transgressor of the law, as he died without even being given the privilege of burial in the ground. ⁸ His manner of death was eminently just, for he had committed innumerable sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, and it was in ashes that he met his death.

Judas Triumphs against the Syrians at Modein. ⁹ The king then advanced with savage arrogance, aiming to inflict on the Jews far worse sufferings than they had experienced under his father.