And he urged him to marry and have children: Nicanor urged Judas to marry and raise a family. This implies that Nicanor expected peaceful relations with the Jews in the future.

So he married, settled down, and shared the common life: The pronoun he refers to Judas. Settled down, and shared the common life is rendered in New Jerusalem Bible as “settled down and led a normal life” and in New English Bible as “settled down to the quiet life of an ordinary citizen.” Good News Bible is also good here.

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.