Good News Translation
I had planned to throw out the dead bodies of the Jews and their children for the wild animals and the birds to eat, for I did not consider them worth burying. But now I intend to grant them the same privileges as the citizens of Athens enjoy.

New Revised Standard Version
and the Jews, whom he had not considered worth burying but had planned to throw out with their children for the wild animals and for the birds to eat, he would make, all of them, equal to citizens of Athens;

Contemporary English Version
I also intended to let the birds and the wild animals eat the bodies of the Jews and their children that I had thrown outside. After all, I did not consider them worth burying. But instead I'll give them the same legal rights as the people of Athens.

New American Bible
that the Jews, whom he had judged not even worthy of burial, but fit only to be thrown out with their children to be eaten by vultures and wild animals—all of them he would make equal to the Athenians;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians.

And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians.

2 Maccabees 9:13
Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

2 Maccabees 9:14
And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free:

2 Maccabees 9:16
The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.

2 Maccabees 9:17
Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through every place of the earth, and declare the power of God.