Good News Translation
At that time also many of the Israelites who were seeking to be right with God through obedience to the Law went out to live in the wilderness, taking their children, their wives, and their livestock with them, because of the terrible oppression they were suffering.

New Revised Standard Version
At that time many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to live there,

Contemporary English Version
Many of the Jews were now in serious trouble for trying to obey God and live right. So they took their families and livestock and moved to the desert.

New American Bible
At that time many who sought righteousness and justice went out into the wilderness to settle there,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into the desert

Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into the desert

1 Maccabees 2:27
And Mathathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying: Every one that hath zeal for the law, and maintaineth the testament, let him follow me.

1 Maccabees 2:28
So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that they had in the city.

1 Maccabees 2:30
And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives, and their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them.

1 Maccabees 2:31
And it was told to the king's men, and to the army that was in Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king's commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the wilderness, and that many were gone after them.