Good News Translation
So Jason, who had cheated his own brother out of the office of High Priest, was now forced to flee to the land of Ammon.

New Revised Standard Version
So Jason, who after supplanting his own brother was supplanted by another man, was driven as a fugitive into the land of Ammon.

Contemporary English Version
Jason had earlier cheated his brother Onias out of the position of high priest. And now someone was cheating him out of being high priest, and he had to run to the Ammonites for his own safety.

New American Bible
So Jason, who had cheated his own brother and now saw himself cheated by another man, was driven out as a fugitive to the country of the Ammonites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.

Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.

2 Maccabees 4:24
But he being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the appearance of his power, got the high priesthood for himself, by offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

2 Maccabees 4:25
So having received the king's mandate, he returned, bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

2 Maccabees 4:27
So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of the castle, called for it.

2 Maccabees 4:28
For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king.