Good News Translation
With great enthusiasm he built a stadium near the Temple hill and led our finest young men to adopt the Greek custom of participating in athletic events.

New Revised Standard Version
He took delight in establishing a gymnasium right under the citadel, and he induced the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat.

Contemporary English Version
He eagerly built the place for exercise and sports near the temple. Then he ordered our finest young men to take part in activities there.

New American Bible
With perverse delight he established a gymnasium at the very foot of the citadel, where he induced the noblest young men to wear the Greek hat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.

For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.

2 Maccabees 4:10
Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the rule into his hands, forthwith he began to bring over his countrymen to the fashion of the heathens.

2 Maccabees 4:11
And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John, the father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and brought in fashions that were perverse.

2 Maccabees 4:13
Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch, and no priest.

2 Maccabees 4:14
Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of the discus.