Good News Translation
But when they saw the enormous size of the enemy army, they were terrified. So many men deserted that only 800 Jewish soldiers were left.

New Revised Standard Version
When they saw the huge number of the enemy forces, they were greatly frightened, and many slipped away from the camp, until no more than eight hundred of them were left.

Contemporary English Version
But when they saw the size of the enemy army, they were terrified and ran. Only about 800 soldiers stayed in camp.

New American Bible
When they saw the great number of the troops, they were very much afraid, and many slipped away from the camp, until only eight hundred of them remained.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they saw the multitude of the army that they were many, and they were seized with great fear: and many withdrew themselves out of the camp, and there remained of them no more than eight hundred men.

And they saw the multitude of the army that they were many, and they were seized with great fear: and many withdrew themselves out of the camp, and there remained of them no more than eight hundred men.

1 Maccabees 9:4
And they arose and went to Berea, with twenty thousand men, and two thousand horsemen.

1 Maccabees 9:5
Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa, and three thousand chosen men with him:

1 Maccabees 9:7
And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and the battle pressed upon him, and his heart was cast down: because he had not time to gather them together, and he was discouraged.

1 Maccabees 9:8
Then he said to them that remained: Let us arise, and go against our enemies, if we may be able to fight against them.