Good News Translation
"I am holding your brother Jonathan under arrest because while he was in office he did not pay his debts to the royal treasury.

New Revised Standard Version
“It is for the money that your brother Jonathan owed the royal treasury, in connection with the offices he held, that we are detaining him.

Contemporary English Version
Your brother Jonathan was a royal official, but he owed money to the king, and so I arrested him.

New American Bible
“It was on account of the money your brother Jonathan owed the royal treasury in connection with the offices that he held, that we have detained him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: We have detained thy brother, Jonathan, for the money that he owed in the king's account, by reason of the affairs which he had the management of.

Saying: We have detained thy brother, Jonathan, for the money that he owed in the king's account, by reason of the affairs which he had the management of.

1 Maccabees 13:13
But Simon pitched in Addus, over against the plain.

1 Maccabees 13:14
And when Tryphon understood that Simon was risen up in the place of his brother, Jonathan, and that he meant to join battle with him, he sent messengers to him,

1 Maccabees 13:16
But now send a hundred talents of silver, and his two sons for hostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will release him.

1 Maccabees 13:17
Now Simon knew that he spoke deceitfully to him; nevertheless, he ordered the money and the children to be sent, lest he should bring upon himself a great hatred of the people of Israel, who might have said: