2 Maccabees 13:5
“Now there was in that place a towre of fifty cubites high full of ashes, and it had a round instrumēt which on euery side hanged down into the ashes.”
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2 Maccabees 13:5 Context
3Menelaus also ioyned himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safegard of the countrey, but because hee thought to haue bin made gouernour. 4But the King of kings mooued Antiochus minde against this wicked wretch, and Lysias enformed the king, that this man was the cause of all mischiefe, so that the king commanded to bring him vnto Berea, and to put him to death, as the maner is in that place. 5Now there was in that place a towre of fifty cubites high full of ashes, and it had a round instrumēt which on euery side hanged down into the ashes. 6And whosoeuer was condemned of sacriledge, or had committed any other grieuous crime, there did all men thrust him vnto death. 7Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not hauing so much as buriall in the earth, & that most iustly.
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Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged down into the ashes.
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