Good News Translation
All his brothers and all the loyal followers of his father gave him their support, and they were happy to carry on Israel's war.

New Revised Standard Version
All his brothers and all who had joined his father helped him; they gladly fought for Israel.

Contemporary English Version
His four brothers and his father's soldiers eagerly helped him fight for Israel.

New American Bible
All his brothers and all who had joined his father supported him, and they gladly carried on Israel’s war.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all his brethren helped him, and all they that had joined themselves to his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

And all his brethren helped him, and all they that had joined themselves to his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

1 Maccabees 2:70
And he died in the hundred and forty-sixth year: and he was buried by his sons in the sepulchres of his fathers, in Modin, and all Israel mourned for him with great mourning.

1 Maccabees 3:1
Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead.

1 Maccabees 3:3
And he got his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike armour about him in battles, and protected the camp with his sword.

1 Maccabees 3:4
In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey.