Good News Translation
Then Nicanor, the lowest creature on earth, asked if there was some sovereign ruler in heaven who had commanded them to honor the Sabbath.

New Revised Standard Version
the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a sovereign in heaven who had commanded the keeping of the sabbath day.

Contemporary English Version
But that horrible Nicanor replied, "Did some great ruler in heaven really command you Jews to honor the Sabbath?"

New American Bible
At this the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there was a ruler in heaven who prescribed the keeping of the sabbath day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That unhappy man asked, if there were a mighty One in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.

That unhappy man asked, if there were a mighty One in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.

2 Maccabees 15:1
But when Nicanor understood that Judas was in the places of Samaria, he purposed to set upon him with all violence, on the sabbath day.

2 Maccabees 15:2
And when the Jews that were constrained to follow him, said: Do not act so fiercely and barbarously, but give honour to the day that is sanctified: and reverence him that beholdeth all things:

2 Maccabees 15:4
And when they answered: There is the living Lord himself in heaven, the mighty One, that commanded the seventh day to be kept.

2 Maccabees 15:5
Then he said: And I am mighty upon the earth, and I command to take arms, and to do the king's business. Nevertheless he prevailed not to accomplish his design.