Antiochus VII Threatens Simon

²⁵ King Antiochus besieged Dor for the second time, continually throwing his forces against it and making engines of war, and he shut Trypho up and kept him from going out or in.^(A)

16 John went up from Gazara and reported to his father Simon what Cendebeus had done.^(A)

⁴ So John^[a] chose out of the country twenty thousand warriors and cavalry, and they marched against Cendebeus and camped for the night in Modein.^(A)

⁸ They sounded the trumpets, and Cendebeus and his army were put to flight; many of them fell wounded, and the rest fled into the stronghold.^(A)