Good News Translation
But some traitorous Jews who hated their own nation went to King Demetrius the Second and told him that Jonathan was laying siege to the fort in Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
But certain renegades who hated their nation went to the king and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.

Contemporary English Version
King Demetrius the Second found out about the attack from some Jews who really hated the other Jews.

New American Bible
But some transgressors of the law, enemies of their own nation, went to the king and informed him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then some wicked men that hated their own nation, went away to king Demetrius, and told him that Jonathan was besieging the castle.

Then some wicked men that hated their own nation, went away to king Demetrius, and told him that Jonathan was besieging the castle.

1 Maccabees 11:19
And Demetrius reigned in the hundred and sixty-seventh year.

1 Maccabees 11:20
In those days Jonathan gathered together them that were in Judea, to take the castle that was in Jerusalem: and they made many engines of war against it.

1 Maccabees 11:22
And when he heard it, he was angry: and forthwith he came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan that he should not besiege the castle, but should come to him in haste, and speak to him.

1 Maccabees 11:23
But when Jonathan heard this, he bade them besiege it still: and he chose some of the ancients of Israel, and of the priests, and put himself in danger