Good News Translation
In Persia a messenger reached him with the news that the armies he had sent into Judea had been defeated.

New Revised Standard Version
Then someone came to him in Persia and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;

Contemporary English Version
But while he was still in Persia, a messenger came and said: The Jews have crushed the armies you sent to Judea,

New American Bible
While he was in Persia, a messenger brought him news that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

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:

1 Maccabees 6:3
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 6:4
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 6:6
And that Lysias went with a very great power, and was put to flight before the face of the Jews, and that they were grown strong by the armour, and power, and store of spoils which they had gotten out of the camps which they had destroyed:

1 Maccabees 6:7
And that they had thrown down the abomination which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls as before, and Bethsura also, his city.