1 Maccabees 6:53
Good News Translation
But there was no food left in the Temple storage bins because it was the sabbatical year, and the people who had fled from the Gentiles and taken refuge in Judea had eaten all the food that had been stored there.

New Revised Standard Version
But they had no food in storage, because it was the seventh year; those who had found safety in Judea from the Gentiles had consumed the last of the stores.

Contemporary English Version
But it was the year when they had let the fields rest, and they ran out of supplies, because they had given what little food they had stored in the temple to those who had run away from the Gentiles and had come to Judea.

New American Bible
But there were no provisions in the storerooms, because it was the seventh year, and the reserves had been eaten up by those who had been rescued from the Gentiles and brought to Judea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up.

1 Maccabees 6:51
And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and he set up there battering slings, and engines, and instruments to cast fire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot arrows, and slings.

1 Maccabees 6:52
And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days.

1 Maccabees 6:54
And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own place.

1 Maccabees 6:55
Now Lysias heard that Philip; whom king Antiochus while he lived had appointed to bring up his son, Antiochus, and to reign,

Context
1 Maccabees 6
52And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days. 53But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up. 54And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own place.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 6:51
And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and he set up there battering slings, and engines, and instruments to cast fire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot arrows, and slings.

1 Maccabees 6:52
And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days.

1 Maccabees 6:54
And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own place.

1 Maccabees 6:55
Now Lysias heard that Philip; whom king Antiochus while he lived had appointed to bring up his son, Antiochus, and to reign,



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1 Maccabees 6:52
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