Good News Translation
The Idumeans were blockading the Israelites, so Judas went to war against them at Akrabattene, crushed them, and looted them.

New Revised Standard Version
But Judas made war on the descendants of Esau in Idumea, at Akrabattene, because they kept lying in wait for Israel. He dealt them a heavy blow and humbled them and despoiled them.

Contemporary English Version
Judas fought back by attacking the Idumeans, who had often ambushed the people of Israel. Finally, in the region of Akrabattene, he wiped out most of them and took everything of value.

New American Bible
Then Judas attacked the Edomites at Akrabattene in Idumea, because they were blockading Israel; he dealt them a heavy blow, humbled and despoiled them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them.

Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them.

1 Maccabees 5:1
Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were exceeding angry.

1 Maccabees 5:2
And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

1 Maccabees 5:4
And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in the way.

1 Maccabees 5:5
And they were shut up by him in towers, and he set upon them, and devoted them to utter destruction, and burnt their towers with fire, and all that were in them.