Good News Translation
Antiochus came and tried to take the city and loot it, but he didn't succeed, because the citizens had learned what he was planning to do,

New Revised Standard Version
So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not because his plan had become known to the citizens

Contemporary English Version
Antiochus tried to capture the city of Elymais and take its treasures. But his attack failed because the people found out about his plans and fought hard against him. Antiochus was terribly frustrated and started back toward Babylonia.

New American Bible
He went therefore and tried to capture and loot the city. But he could not do so, because his plan became known to the people of the city

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.

So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.

1 Maccabees 6:1
Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold,

1 Maccabees 6:2
And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.

1 Maccabees 6:4
And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.

1 Maccabees 6:5
And whilst he was in Persia there came one that told him how the armies that were in the land of Juda were put to flight: