1 In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that An-ti´ochus Eu´pator was coming with a great power into Judea,
2 and with him Lys´i-as his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Greek force of footmen, an hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
3 Menela´us also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged An-ti´ochus, not for the safeguard of the country, but because he thought to have been made governor.
4 But the King of kings moved An-ti´ochus' mind against this wicked wretch, and Lys´i-as informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
5 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.
6 And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.