Good News Translation
But others sold all their remaining possessions so that the Lord would consider them worthy to be saved from the godless Nicanor, who had sold them as slaves even before the battle had taken place.

New Revised Standard Version
Others sold all their remaining property, and at the same time implored the Lord to rescue those who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor before he ever met them,

Contemporary English Version
Others sold their property and prayed: Our Lord, please rescue your troops from that godless Nicanor. He has already started selling us as slaves, before the battle has even begun.

New American Bible
But the others sold everything they had left, and at the same time entreated the Lord to deliver those whom the ungodly Nicanor had sold before even capturing them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord, that he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them before he came near them:

Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord, that he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them before he came near them:

2 Maccabees 8:12
Now when Judas found that Nicanor was coming, he imparted to the Jews that were with him, that the enemy was at hand.

2 Maccabees 8:13
And some of them being afraid, and distrusting the justice of God, fled away.

2 Maccabees 8:15
And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made with their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that was invoked upon them.

2 Maccabees 8:16
But Machabeus calling together seven thousand that were with him, exhorted them not to be reconciled to the enemies, nor to fear the multitude of the enemies who came wrongfully against them, but to fight manfully: