1 Maccabees 12:51
Good News Translation
When the approaching enemy forces saw that the Jews were ready to fight for their lives, they turned back.

New Revised Standard Version
When their pursuers saw that they would fight for their lives, they turned back.

Contemporary English Version
Trypho's soldiers and cavalry caught up with them, but they turned back when they realized that the Jews would fight for their lives.

New American Bible
As their pursuers saw that they were ready to fight for their lives, they turned back.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for their lives, returned back.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for their lives, returned back.

1 Maccabees 12:49
Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan's company.

1 Maccabees 12:50
But they, when they understood that Jonathan, and all that were with him, were taken and slain, encouraged one another, and went out ready for battle.

1 Maccabees 12:52
Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda and they bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and Israel mourned with great lamentation.

1 Maccabees 12:53
Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said:

Context
1 Maccabees 12
50But they, when they understood that Jonathan, and all that were with him, were taken and slain, encouraged one another, and went out ready for battle. 51Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for their lives, returned back. 52Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda and they bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and Israel mourned with great lamentation.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 12:49
Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan's company.

1 Maccabees 12:50
But they, when they understood that Jonathan, and all that were with him, were taken and slain, encouraged one another, and went out ready for battle.

1 Maccabees 12:52
Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda and they bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and Israel mourned with great lamentation.

1 Maccabees 12:53
Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said:



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1 Maccabees 12:50
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