Good News Translation
In the second month of the year 153, the High Priest Alcimus ordered that the wall of the inner court of the Temple be torn down. This would have destroyed what the prophets had accomplished; but just as the work began,

New Revised Standard Version
In the one hundred and fifty-third year, in the second month, Alcimus gave orders to tear down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary. He tore down the work of the prophets!

Contemporary English Version
In the second month of the year 153 of the Syrian Kingdom, Alcimus the high priest ordered his followers to destroy the wall in the temple courtyard that prophets of earlier times had said should be built.

New American Bible
In the one hundred and fifty-third year, in the second month, Alcimus ordered the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary to be torn down, thus destroying the work of the prophets. But he only began to tear it down.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now in the year one hundred and fifty-three, the second month, Alcimus commanded the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to be thrown down, and the works of the prophets to be destroyed: and he began to destroy.

Now in the year one hundred and fifty-three, the second month, Alcimus commanded the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to be thrown down, and the works of the prophets to be destroyed: and he began to destroy.

1 Maccabees 9:52
And he fortified the city of Bethsura, and Gazara, and the castle, and set garrisons in them, and provisions of victuals:

1 Maccabees 9:53
And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in the castle in Jerusalem in custody.

1 Maccabees 9:55
At that time Alcimus was struck: and his works were hindered, and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak a word, nor give order concerning his house.

1 Maccabees 9:56
And Alcimus died at that time in great torment.