Chapter VII: Part II: Celebration of the victories gained over the armies of

Apollonius, the governor of Samaria and Seron, the Deputy Governor of
Coelesyria, and the valor of Judas.--Renewal of war by a division of
the Syrian array from Egypt, under Gorgias, and the despondency it
occasions among the Israelites.--Judas again arouses the failing
courage of the people, and they set out to meet the enemy.--Those who
remain behind utter their detestation of the heathen idolatries, by
which the sanctuary at Jerusalem had been desecrated, and their
determination only to worship the God of Israel.