Good News Translation
People ran from their houses to join together in prayer that the Temple might not be defiled.

New Revised Standard Version
People also hurried out of their houses in crowds to make a general supplication because the holy place was about to be brought into dishonor.

Contemporary English Version
Heliodorus was about to disgrace the temple, and so families ran out of their houses and huddled together in the streets to pray.

New American Bible
People rushed out of their houses and crowded together making common supplication, because the place was in danger of being profaned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

2 Maccabees 3:16
Now whosoever saw the countenance of the high priest, was wounded in heart: for his face, and the changing of his colour, declared the inward sorrow of his mind.

2 Maccabees 3:17
For the man was so compassed with sadness and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that beheld him, what sorrow he had in his heart.

2 Maccabees 3:19
And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

2 Maccabees 3:20
And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication.