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2 Maccabees 13:3-5
Common English Bible
2 Maccabees 13:3-5
Common English Bible
3 Menelaus also joined them and encouraged Antiochus with many lies, not out of a concern for the safety of his homeland but because he expected that he would be set over the government. 4 The king of kings, however, aroused Antiochus’ anger against the sinner. When Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all the evils, Antiochus commanded that Menelaus be brought to Beroea and executed according to the custom there. 5 That place has a tower seventy-five feet tall and full of ashes with a steep rim on all sides leading into the ashes.
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