Good News Translation
He attacked Bethbasi from all sides and built siege platforms. After the battle had gone on for a long time,

New Revised Standard Version
Then he came and encamped against Bethbasi; he fought against it for many days and made machines of war.

Contemporary English Version
Then he led his army to Beth-Basi and surrounded the town. His soldiers set up weapons to break through the walls, and they attacked that town for a long time.

New American Bible
He came and camped before Bethbasi, and constructing siege engines, he fought against it for many days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he came, and camped above Bethbessen, and fought against it many days, and made engines.

And he came, and camped above Bethbessen, and fought against it many days, and made engines.

1 Maccabees 9:62
And Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him, retired into Bethbessen, which is in the desert: and he repaired the breaches thereof, and they fortified it.

1 Maccabees 9:63
And when Bacchides knew it, he gathered together all his multitude: and sent word to them that were of Judea.

1 Maccabees 9:65
But Jonathan left his brother, Simon, in the city and went forth into the country, and came with a number of men,

1 Maccabees 9:66
And struck Odares, and his brethren, and the children of Phaseron, in their tents, and he began to slay, and to increase in forces.