Good News Translation
and declare Menelaus innocent of the charges against him. So Menelaus was set free, although he had caused the trouble; but the three men, whom even the cruel Scythians would have declared innocent, were sentenced to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Menelaus, the cause of all the trouble, he acquitted of the charges against him, while he sentenced to death those unfortunate men, who would have been freed uncondemned if they had pleaded even before Scythians.

Contemporary English Version
and to drop the charges against Menelaus, the cause of the trouble. Afterwards, Antiochus sentenced the three messengers to death. Even the cruelest judge would have freed those men,

New American Bible
Menelaus, who was the cause of all the trouble, the king acquitted of the charges, while he condemned to death those poor men who would have been declared innocent even if they had pleaded their case before Scythians.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death.

So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death.

2 Maccabees 4:45
But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him.

2 Maccabees 4:46
So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:

2 Maccabees 4:48
Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.

2 Maccabees 4:49
Wherefore even the Tyrians, being moved with indignation, were very liberal towards their burial.