Good News Translation
Two of Judas' generals, Dositheus and Sosipater, attacked the garrison and killed all 10,000 men stationed there.

New Revised Standard Version
Dositheus and Sosipater, who were captains under Maccabeus, marched out and destroyed those whom Timothy had left in the stronghold, more than ten thousand men.

Contemporary English Version
So Judas gave orders for Dositheus and Sosipater to take some of the Jewish troops and attack the fortress. They were successful and killed more than 10,000 of the soldiers left there by Timothy.

New American Bible
But Dositheus and Sosipater, two of Maccabeus’ captains, marched out and destroyed the force of more than ten thousand men that Timothy had left in the stronghold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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

2 Maccabees 12:18
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 12:20
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.

2 Maccabees 12:21
Now when Timotheus had knowledge of the coming of Judas, he sent the women and children, and the other baggage, before him into a fortress, called Carnion: for it was impregnable, and hard to come at, by reason of the straitness of the places.