Good News Translation
However, Sostratus, the captain of the fort in Jerusalem, kept demanding the money, since it was his responsibility to collect it. So finally, the two men were summoned to appear before the king concerning the matter.

New Revised Standard Version
When Sostratus the captain of the citadel kept requesting payment—for the collection of the revenue was his responsibility—the two of them were summoned by the king on account of this issue.

Contemporary English Version
He was asked many times for it by an official named Sostratus, who commanded the enemy fortress in Jerusalem, and whose duty it was to collect the king's money. Finally, the king ordered both men to come to him and discuss the matter.

New American Bible
in spite of the demand of Sostratus, the commandant of the citadel, whose duty it was to collect the taxes. For this reason, both were summoned before the king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king.

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

2 Maccabees 4:26
Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.

2 Maccabees 4:27
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 4:29
And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus, his brother, succeeding: and Sostratus alas made governor of the Cyprians.

2 Maccabees 4:30
When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus, and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to Antiochus, the king's concubine.