Good News Translation
When King Antiochus arrived in Persia, his army seemed impossible to defeat, but they were cut to pieces in the temple of the goddess Nanea by an act of treachery on the part of her priests.

New Revised Standard Version
When the leader reached Persia with a force that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanea by a deception employed by the priests of the goddess Nanea.

Contemporary English Version
Antiochus then invaded Persia with an army that seemed too powerful for anyone to defeat. He and his trusted friends went into the temple of the goddess Nanea, where Antiochus lied and said he planned to marry her. But all he really wanted were the temple treasures that he would receive as wedding gifts. The priests of the temple made a clever plan to kill Antiochus.

New American Bible
When their leader arrived in Persia with his seemingly irresistible army, they were cut to pieces in the temple of the goddess Nanea through a deceitful stratagem employed by Nanea’s priests.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea.

For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea.

2 Maccabees 1:11
Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.

2 Maccabees 1:12
For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia, that have fought against us, and the holy city.

2 Maccabees 1:14
For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry.

2 Maccabees 1:15
And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple,