Good News Translation
Antiochus had always given presents more lavishly than earlier kings, but now he was worried that he might not be able to continue this, or even to meet expenses--this had happened once or twice before.

New Revised Standard Version
He feared that he might not have such funds as he had before for his expenses and for the gifts that he used to give more lavishly than preceding kings.

Contemporary English Version
Once again Antiochus started worrying about how he would pay his bills and outdo the other kings before him who gave expensive gifts.

New American Bible
He feared that, as had happened once or twice, he would not have enough for his expenses and for the gifts that he was accustomed to give with a lavish hand—more so than all previous kings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough for charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.

And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough for charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.

1 Maccabees 3:28
And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a year: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things.

1 Maccabees 3:29
And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension, and the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the laws of old times:

1 Maccabees 3:31
And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into Persia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

1 Maccabees 3:32
And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal to oversee the affairs of the kingdom from the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt: