Good News Translation
They saw the huge Gentile army of experienced troops wearing armor and protected by cavalry.

New Revised Standard Version
And they saw the camp of the Gentiles, strong and fortified, with cavalry all around it; and these men were trained in war.

Contemporary English Version
and they saw expert cavalry patrolling every side of the well-guarded camp.

New American Bible
They saw the army of the Gentiles, strong, breastplated, and flanked with cavalry, and made up of experienced soldiers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they saw the camp of the Gentiles that it was strong, and the men in breastplates, and the horsemen round about them, and these were trained up to war.

And they saw the camp of the Gentiles that it was strong, and the men in breastplates, and the horsemen round about them, and these were trained up to war.

1 Maccabees 4:5
And Gorgias came by night into the camp of Judas, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains: for he said: These men flee from us.

1 Maccabees 4:6
And when it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three thousand men only, who neither had armour nor swords:

1 Maccabees 4:8
And Judas said to the men that were with him: Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault.

1 Maccabees 4:9
Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with a great army.