Good News Translation
During this time of war, we did not wish to trouble you or our other allies and friends,

New Revised Standard Version
We were unwilling to annoy you and our other allies and friends with these wars,

Contemporary English Version
However, there was no reason to bother you or other friends and allies with our problems.

New American Bible
We did not wish to be troublesome to you and to the rest of our allies and friends in these wars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But we would not be troublesome to you, nor to the rest of our allies and friends, in these wars.

But we would not be troublesome to you, nor to the rest of our allies and friends, in these wars.

1 Maccabees 12:12
And we rejoice at your glory.

1 Maccabees 12:13
But we have had many troubles and wars on every side; and the kings that are round about us have fought against us.

1 Maccabees 12:15
For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered, and our enemies are humbled.

1 Maccabees 12:16
We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew with them the former amity and alliance.