Good News Translation
Menelaus was put to death in that way, without even having the privilege of a burial,

New Revised Standard Version
By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.

Contemporary English Version
So that was how the lawbreaker Menelaus died--and without even a proper burial afterwards.

New American Bible
In such a manner was Menelaus, that transgressor of the law, fated to die, deprived even of burial.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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.

2 Maccabees 13:5
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.

2 Maccabees 13:6
From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.

2 Maccabees 13:8
And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many sins against the altar of God, the fire and ashes of which were holy: he was condemned to die in ashes.

2 Maccabees 13:9
But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.