And Jonathan and those with him returned to Jerusalem with much booty: With much booty may be expressed as “carrying huge quantities of things they had looted.”

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.