Good News Translation
Mattathias and his friends went everywhere tearing down pagan altars

New Revised Standard Version
And Mattathias and his friends went around and tore down the altars;

Contemporary English Version
Mattathias and his followers tore down every altar they found.

New American Bible
Mattathias and his friends went about and tore down the pagan altars;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw down the altars:

And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw down the altars:

1 Maccabees 2:43
And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them, and were a support to them.

1 Maccabees 2:44
And they gathered an army, and slew the sinners in their wrath, and the wicked men in their indignation: and the rest fled to the nations for safety.

1 Maccabees 2:46
And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.

1 Maccabees 2:47
And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work prospered in their hands: