Good News Translation
Every troublemaker in the country joined him. They gained control of the land of Judea and caused great difficulties for the Jews.

New Revised Standard Version
and all who were troubling their people joined him. They gained control of the land of Judah and did great damage in Israel.

Contemporary English Version
But a lot of troublemakers helped him, and together they took control of the nation and did horrible things to the people.

New American Bible
and all those who were troubling the people gathered about him. They took possession of the land of Judah and caused great distress in Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that disturbed the people resorted to him, and they got the land of Juda into their power, and did much hurt in Israel.

And they that disturbed the people resorted to him, and they got the land of Juda into their power, and did much hurt in Israel.

1 Maccabees 7:20
Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him troops to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king.

1 Maccabees 7:21
But Alcimus did what he could to maintain his chief priesthood.

1 Maccabees 7:23
And Judas saw all the evils that Alcimus, and they that were with him, did to the children of Israel, much more than the Gentiles.

1 Maccabees 7:24
And he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance upon the men that had revolted, and they ceased to go forth any more into the country.