Good News Translation
From his treasury he paid a full year's wages to his soldiers and ordered them to be prepared for any emergency.

New Revised Standard Version
He opened his coffers and gave a year’s pay to his forces, and ordered them to be ready for any need.

Contemporary English Version
He took money from his treasury and gave each soldier a year's pay. Then he told them, "Be ready to fight at a moment's notice!"

New American Bible
He opened his treasury, gave his soldiers a year’s pay, and commanded them to be prepared for anything.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a year: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things.

And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a year: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things.

1 Maccabees 3:26
And his fame came to the king, and all nations told of the battles of Judas.

1 Maccabees 3:27
Now when king Antiochus heard these words, he was angry in his mind: and he sent, and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an exceeding strong army.

1 Maccabees 3:29
And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension, and the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the laws of old times:

1 Maccabees 3:30
And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough for charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.