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,
8. taste of the hardiness of the Jews, attempted to take the strong places by policy:
9. But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.
10. Which, when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call upon the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he would help them: