Good News Translation
but he brought back many prisoners of war and captured Gezer, Bethzur, and the fort in Jerusalem. He purified the fort, and there was no one to oppose him.

New Revised Standard Version
He gathered a host of captives; he ruled over Gazara and Beth-zur and the citadel, and he removed its uncleanness from it; and there was none to oppose him.

Contemporary English Version
He took many prisoners and also captured the towns of Gazara and Beth-Zur. And when he took control of the Jerusalem fortress, he removed all the idols that had made it unclean. No one could oppose him!

New American Bible
He took many prisoners of war and made himself master of Gazara, Beth-zur, and the citadel. He cleansed the citadel of its impurities; there was no one to withstand him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away all uncleanness out of it, and there was none that resisted him.

And he gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away all uncleanness out of it, and there was none that resisted him.

1 Maccabees 14:5
And with all his glory he took Joppe for a haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea.

1 Maccabees 14:6
And he enlarged the bounds of his nation, and made himself master of the country.

1 Maccabees 14:8
And every man tilled his land with peace, and the land of Juda yielded her increase, and the trees of the fields their fruit.

1 Maccabees 14:9
The ancient men sat all in the streets, and treated together of the good things of the land, and the young men put on them glory, and the robes of war.