Good News Translation
They went as far as Ephron, a large, well-fortified town. It was impossible to go around it on either side, and the road passed directly through the town.

New Revised Standard Version
So they came to Ephron. This was a large and very strong town on the road, and they could not go around it to the right or to the left; they had to go through it.

New American Bible
When they reached Ephron, a large and strongly fortified city along the way, they found it impossible to go around it on either the right or the left; they would have to march right through it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they came as far as Ephron: now this was a great city, situate in the way, strongly fortified, and there was no means to turn from it on the right hand or on the left, but the way was through the midst of it.

And they came as far as Ephron: now this was a great city, situate in the way, strongly fortified, and there was no means to turn from it on the right hand or on the left, but the way was through the midst of it.

1 Maccabees 5:44
And he took that city, and the temple he burnt with fire, with all things that were therein: and Carnaim was subdued, and could not stand against the face of Judas.

1 Maccabees 5:45
And Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the land of Galaad, from the least even to the greatest, and their wives and children, and an army exceeding great, to come into the land of Juda.

1 Maccabees 5:47
And they that were in the city shut themselves in, and stopped up the gates with stones: and Judas sent to them with peaceable words,

1 Maccabees 5:48
Saying: Let us pass through your land, to go into our own country, and no man shall hurt you; we will only pass through on foot. But they would not open to them.