New Revised Standard Version
He found the nights most advantageous for such attacks. And talk of his valor spread everywhere.

Contemporary English Version
He liked to make these attacks after dark, and soon everyone was talking about this brave warrior.

New American Bible
He preferred the nights as being especially favorable for such attacks. Soon talk of his valor spread everywhere.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and the fame of his valour was spread abroad every where.

And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and the fame of his valour was spread abroad every where.

2 Maccabees 8:5
Now when Machabeus had gathered a multitude, he could not be withstood by the heathens: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.

2 Maccabees 8:6
So coming unawares upon the towns and cities, he set them on fire, and taking possession of the most commodious places, he made no small slaughter of the enemies:

2 Maccabees 8:8
Then Philip seeing that the man gained ground by little and little, and that things for the most part succeeded prosperously with him, wrote to Ptolemee, the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, to send aid to the king's affairs.

2 Maccabees 8:9
And he with all speed sent Nicanor, the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, giving him no fewer than twenty thousand armed men of different nations, to root out the whole race of the Jews, joining also with him Gorgias, a good soldier, and of great experience in matters of war.