Good News Translation
A large force of soldiers pursued them, caught up with them, set up camp opposite them, and prepared to attack them on the Sabbath.

New Revised Standard Version
Many pursued them, and overtook them; they encamped opposite them and prepared for battle against them on the sabbath day.

Contemporary English Version
So a large number of the troops went after them and camped nearby. Then on the Sabbath

New American Bible
Many hurried out after them, and having caught up with them, camped opposite and prepared to attack them on the sabbath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And forthwith they went out towards them, and made war against them on the sabbath day.

And forthwith they went out towards them, and made war against them on the sabbath day.

1 Maccabees 2:30
And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives, and their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them.

1 Maccabees 2:31
And it was told to the king's men, and to the army that was in Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king's commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the wilderness, and that many were gone after them.

1 Maccabees 2:33
And they said to them: Do you still resist? come forth, and do according to the edict of king Antiochus, and you shall live.

1 Maccabees 2:34
And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.