Good News Translation
"We thank God because he saved us from great danger. We were like men ready to fight against a king,

New Revised Standard Version
Having been saved by God out of grave dangers we thank him greatly for taking our side against the king,

Contemporary English Version
We thank God because he has rescued us from King Antiochus, who put us in dreadful danger.

New American Bible
Since we have been saved by God from grave dangers, we give him great thanks as befits those who fought against the king;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.

Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.

2 Maccabees 1:9
And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu.

2 Maccabees 1:10
In the year one hundred and eighty-eight, the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.

2 Maccabees 1:12
For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia, that have fought against us, and the holy city.

2 Maccabees 1:13
For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea.