Good News Translation
The king gave his approval, and just as soon as Jason took over the office of High Priest, he made the people of Jerusalem change to the Greek way of life.

New Revised Standard Version
When the king assented and Jason came to office, he at once shifted his compatriots over to the Greek way of life.

Contemporary English Version
King Antiochus gave Jason everything he wanted. But no sooner had Jason become high priest than he began forcing Jews to live like Greeks.

New American Bible
When Jason received the king’s approval and came into office, he immediately initiated his compatriots into the Greek way of life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the rule into his hands, forthwith he began to bring over his countrymen to the fashion of the heathens.

Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the rule into his hands, forthwith he began to bring over his countrymen to the fashion of the heathens.

2 Maccabees 4:8
And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and out of other revenues fourscore talents.

2 Maccabees 4:9
Besides this he promised also a hundred and fifty more, if he might have license to set him up a place for exercise, and a place for youth, and to entitle them that were at Jerusalem, Antiochians.

2 Maccabees 4:11
And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John, the father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and brought in fashions that were perverse.

2 Maccabees 4:12
For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.