Good News Translation
Judas would make sudden attacks on towns and villages and burn them. He captured strategic positions and routed many enemy troops, finding that he was most successful at night. People everywhere spoke of his bravery.

New Revised Standard Version
Coming without warning, he would set fire to towns and villages. He captured strategic positions and put to flight not a few of the enemy.

Contemporary English Version
Judas burned towns and villages without warning; he captured fortresses and forced their troops to run for their lives.

New American Bible
Coming by surprise upon towns and villages, he set them on fire. He captured strategic positions, and put to flight not a few of the enemy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So coming unawares upon the towns and cities, he set them on fire, and taking possession of the most commodious places, he made no small slaughter of the enemies:

So coming unawares upon the towns and cities, he set them on fire, and taking possession of the most commodious places, he made no small slaughter of the enemies:

2 Maccabees 8:4
That he would remember also the most unjust deaths of innocent children, and the blasphemies offered to his name, and would shew his indignation on this occasion.

2 Maccabees 8:5
Now when Machabeus had gathered a multitude, he could not be withstood by the heathens: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.

2 Maccabees 8:7
And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and the fame of his valour was spread abroad every where.

2 Maccabees 8:8
Then Philip seeing that the man gained ground by little and little, and that things for the most part succeeded prosperously with him, wrote to Ptolemee, the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, to send aid to the king's affairs.