Good News Translation
King Antiochus arrogantly continued his barbaric invasion of Judah, intending to deal with the Jews more harshly than his father had ever done.

New Revised Standard Version
The king with barbarous arrogance was coming to show the Jews things far worse than those that had been done in his father’s time.

Contemporary English Version
Antiochus was an arrogant and savage king, who wanted to punish the people of Judea more severely than his father had ever done. He was on his way to invade the country,

New American Bible
The king was advancing, his mind full of savage plans for inflicting on the Jews things worse than those they suffered in his father’s time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.

But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.

2 Maccabees 13:7
And by such a law it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of the law, was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth.

2 Maccabees 13:8
And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many sins against the altar of God, the fire and ashes of which were holy: he was condemned to die in ashes.

2 Maccabees 13:10
Which when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call upon the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he would help them:

2 Maccabees 13:11
Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations.