Good News Translation
But they did not find Timothy there, because he had already left the region. He had been able to do nothing there except leave behind a strong garrison in one place.

New Revised Standard Version
They did not find Timothy in that region, for he had by then left there without accomplishing anything, though in one place he had left a very strong garrison.

Contemporary English Version
Timothy had been there and gone. He had not done any damage, but he had stationed a very strong force in a nearby fortress.

New American Bible
But they did not find Timothy in that region, for he had already departed from there without having done anything except to leave behind in one place a very strong garrison.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for before he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold:

But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for before he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold:

2 Maccabees 12:16
And having taken the city by the will of the Lord, he made an unspeakable slaughter, so that a pool adjoining, of two furlongs broad, seemed to run with the blood of the slain.

2 Maccabees 12:17
From thence they departed seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to Characa, to the Jews that are called Tubianites.

2 Maccabees 12:19
But Dositheus, and Sosipater, who were captains with Machabeus, slew them that were left by Timotheus in the hold, to the number of ten thousand men.

2 Maccabees 12:20
And Machabeus having set in order about him six thousand men, and divided them by bands, went forth against Timotheus, who had with him a hundred and twenty thousand footmen, and two thousand five hundred horsemen.