Good News Translation
trying to persuade them to agree to a just settlement and promising to do all he could to make the king friendly toward them.

New Revised Standard Version
and persuaded them to settle everything on just terms, promising that he would persuade the king, constraining him to be their friend.

Contemporary English Version
urging our people to sign a peace treaty that would be fair. Lysias also promised that he would persuade King Antiochus to be kind to our nation.

New American Bible
persuading them to settle everything on just terms, and promising to persuade the king also, and to induce him to become their friend.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And promised that he would agree to all things that are just, and that he would persuade the king to be their friend.

And promised that he would agree to all things that are just, and that he would persuade the king to be their friend.

2 Maccabees 11:12
And put all the rest to flight; and many of them being wounded, escaped naked: Yea, and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and escaped.

2 Maccabees 11:13
And as he was a man of understanding, considering with himself the loss he had suffered, and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because they relied upon the help of the Almighty God, he sent to them:

2 Maccabees 11:15
Then Machabeus consented to the request of Lysias, providing for the common good in all things; and whatsoever Machabeus wrote to Lysias, concerning the Jews, the king allowed of.

2 Maccabees 11:16
For there were letters written to the Jews from Lysias, to this effect: Lysias, to the people of the Jews, greeting.