Good News Translation
and that was just what he deserved. He had often profaned the sacred ashes of the altar fire in the Temple, and now he met his death in ashes.

New Revised Standard Version
And this was eminently just; because he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he met his death in ashes.

Contemporary English Version
Such a death was a perfect punishment for someone who had so often disgraced the temple altar, together with its holy ashes and fire.

New American Bible
It was altogether just that he who had committed so many sins against the altar with its pure fire and ashes, in ashes should meet his death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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

2 Maccabees 13:7
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.

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.

2 Maccabees 13:10
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: