Good News Translation
Lysias was ordered to send an army against the Jews, especially the Jews in Jerusalem, to break their power and destroy them, so that no trace of them would remain.

New Revised Standard Version
Lysias was to send a force against them to wipe out and destroy the strength of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem; he was to banish the memory of them from the place,

Contemporary English Version
Destroy the army of Judas and kill anyone you find in Jerusalem. Make the whole world forget that those Jews ever lived

New American Bible
Lysias was to send an army against them to crush and destroy the power of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem and efface their memory from the place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that he should send an army against them to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away the memory of them from that place.

And that he should send an army against them to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away the memory of them from that place.

1 Maccabees 3:33
And to bring up his son, Antiochus, till he came again.

1 Maccabees 3:34
And he delivered to him half the army, and the elephants: and he gave him charge concerning all that he would have done, and concerning the inhabitants of Judea, and Jerusalem.

1 Maccabees 3:36
And that he should settle strangers, to dwell in all their coasts, and divide their land by lot.

1 Maccabees 3:37
So the king took the half of the army that remained, and went forth from Antioch, the chief city of his kingdom, in the hundred and forty-seventh year: and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the higher countries.