Good News Translation
they were told to put to death every Jew who refused to adopt the Greek way of life. It was easy to see that hard times were ahead.

New Revised Standard Version
and should kill those who did not choose to change over to Greek customs. One could see, therefore, the misery that had come upon them.

Contemporary English Version
Death would be the penalty for refusing to live like a Greek. Our people now realized that a time of dreadful suffering had arrived.

New American Bible
and putting to death those who would not consent to adopt the customs of the Greeks. It was obvious, therefore, that disaster had come upon them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen.

And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen.

2 Maccabees 6:7
But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus.

2 Maccabees 6:8
And there went out a decree into the neighbouring cities of the Gentiles, by the suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they also should act in like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice:

2 Maccabees 6:10
For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls.

2 Maccabees 6:11
And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day.