Good News Translation
He also dealt with the people of Baean, who were a constant threat to the people of Israel, because they would lie in ambush waiting to trap Israelite travelers.

Contemporary English Version
Then Judas promised God, "Now I'll destroy the Baeanites, that gang of robbers and murderers who set traps for Jewish travelers." So he ordered his troops to surround the towers where they were hiding and to burn down the towers with everyone inside.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in the way.

And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in the way.

1 Maccabees 5:2
And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

1 Maccabees 5:3
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them.

1 Maccabees 5:5
And they were shut up by him in towers, and he set upon them, and devoted them to utter destruction, and burnt their towers with fire, and all that were in them.

1 Maccabees 5:6
Then he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, and Timotheus was their captain: