Good News Translation
It is their fault that I no longer hold the glorious position of High Priest, to which I am entitled by birth. And so I have come here,

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore I have laid aside my ancestral glory—I mean the high priesthood—and have now come here,

Contemporary English Version
And so, I have given up the honorable position of high priest that has always been in my family. I have come here,

New American Bible
For this reason, now that I am deprived of my ancestral dignity, that is to say, the high priesthood, I have come here,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither:

For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither:

2 Maccabees 14:5
But having gotten a convenient time to further his madness, being called to counsel by Demetrius, and asked what the Jews relied upon, and what were their counsels,

2 Maccabees 14:6
He answered thereunto: They among the Jews that are called Assideans, of whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise seditions, and will not suffer the realm to be in peace.

2 Maccabees 14:8
Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men.

2 Maccabees 14:9
Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according to thy humanity which is known to all men.