So he assembled all the warriors may be rendered “So Simon called together all his soldiers.”

And hastened to complete the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it on every side may be expressed as “and they worked quickly to finish the walls and towers that protected Jerusalem on every side” (Contemporary English Version). The soldiers completed the defense measures spoken of in 1Macc 12.35-37.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Maccabees. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2011. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.