Good News Translation
They were also successful in hunting down the arrogant Gentile officials.

New Revised Standard Version
They hunted down the arrogant, and the work prospered in their hands.

Contemporary English Version
and they terrorized their arrogant enemies. Everything went well for Mattathias and his troops,

New American Bible
They put to flight the arrogant, and the work prospered in their hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work prospered in their hands:

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

1 Maccabees 2:45
And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw down the altars:

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 2:48
And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner.

1 Maccabees 2:49
Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation: