Liber Secundus Maccabaeorum

II Maccabaeorum, chapter 1 in the Vulgate version.

There is no KJV of 2 Maccabees, but it does appear in the Apocrypha, as shown below.

Chapter 1 Vulgate

   1 Fratribus, qui sunt per Aegyp tum, Iudaeis salutem dicunt fratres, qui sunt in Hierosolymis Iudaei et qui in regione Iudaeae, pacem bonam.
   2 Et benefaciat vobis Deus et meminerit testamenti sui, quod locutus est ad Abraham et Isaac et Iacob servorum suorum fidelium;
   3 et det vobis cor omnibus, ut colatis eum et faciatis eius voluntatem corde magno et animo volenti;
   4 et adaperiat cor vestrum in lege sua et in praeceptis suis et faciat pacem;
   5 et exaudiat orationes vestras et reconcilietur vobis nec vos deserat in tempore malo.
   6 Et nunc hic sumus orantes pro vobis.
   7 Regnante Demetrio, anno centesimo sexagesimo nono, nos Iudaei scripsimus vobis in tribulatione et impetu, qui supervenit nobis in istis annis, ex quo recessit Iason et, qui cum eo erant, a sancta terra et a regno
   8 et portam succenderunt et effuderunt sanguinem innocentem; et oravimus ad Dominum et exauditi sumus et obtulimus sacrificia et similaginem et accendimus lucernas et proposuimus panes.
   9 Et nunc ut frequentetis dies Scenopegiae mensis Casleu,
   10 anno centesimo octogesimo octavo. Qui sunt Hierosolymis et in Iudaea, senatusque et Iudas Aristobulo magistro Ptolemaei regis, qui est de genere christorum sacerdotum, et his, qui in Aegypto sunt, Iudaeis salutem et sanitatem.
   11 De magnis periculis a Deo liberati magnifice gratias agimus ipsi, utpote qui adversus regem dimicavimus;
   12 ipse enim effervere fecit eos, qui pugnaverunt contra sanctam civitatem.
   13 Nam cum in Perside esset dux ipse et qui cum ipso videbatur esse intolerabilis exercitus, concisi sunt in templo Naneae, fraude utentibus sacerdotibus Naneae.
   14 Etenim quasi cum ea habitaturus venit ad locum Antiochus et, qui cum ipso erant, amici, ut acciperet pecunias multas dotis nomine.
   15 Cumque proposuissent eas sacerdotes Naneae, et ipse cum paucis ingressus esset intra ambitum fani, clauserunt templum; cum intrasset Antiochus,
   16 aperto occulto aditu laquearis, mittentes lapides percusserunt ducem et diviserunt membratim et, capitibus amputatis, foras proiecerunt.
   17 Per omnia benedictus Deus, qui tradidi
   18 Facturi igitur quinta et vicesima die mensis Casleu purificationem templi, necessarium duximus significare vobis, ut et vos quoque agatis diem Scenopegiae et ignis, qui datus est, quando Nehemias, aedificato templo et altari, obtulit sacrificia.
   19 Nam cum in Persidem ducerentur patres nostri, sacerdotes, qui tunc cultores Dei erant, acceptum ignem de altari occulte absconderunt in cavo putei situm habentis siccum, in quo contutati sunt eum, ita ut omnibus ignotus esset locus.
   20 Cum autem praeterissent anni multi, et placuit Deo, ut mitteretur Nehemias a rege Persidis, nepotes sacerdotum illorum, qui absconderant, misit ad ignem.
   21 Sicut narraverunt nobis, non invenerunt ignem sed aquam crassam. Et iussit eos haurire et afferre. Utque imposita sunt sacrificia, iussit sacerdotes Nehemias aspergere aqua et ligna et, quae erant superposita.
   22 Utque hoc factum est, et tempus transiit, et sol refulsit, qui prius erat in nubilo, accensus est ignis magnus, ita ut omnes mirarentur.
   23 Orationem autem faciebant sacerdotes, dum consummaretur sacrificium: et sacerdotes et omnes, Ionatha inchoante, ceteris autem respondentibus ut Nehemias.
   24 Erat autem oratio hunc habens modum: "Domine, Domine Deus, omnium creator, terribilis et fortis, iustus et misericors, qui solus es rex et bonus,
   25 solus praestans, solus iustus et omnipotens et aeternus; qui liberas Israel de omni malo, qui fecisti patres electos et sanctificasti eos,
   26 accipe sacrificium pro universo populo tuo Israel et custodi partem tuam et sanctifica.
   27 Congrega dispersionem nostram, libera eos, qui serviunt gentibus, et contemptos et abominatos respice, ut sciant gentes quia tu es Deus noster.
   28 Afflige opprimentes nos et contumeliam facientes in superbia.
   29 Constitue populum tuum in loco sancto tuo, sicut dixit Moyses".
   30 Sacerdotes autem psallebant hymnos.
   31 Cum autem consumptum esset sacrificium, ex residua aqua Nehemias iussit lapides maiores perfundi
   32 quod ut factum est, flamma accensa est, sed a lumine, quod refulsit ex altari, consumpta est.
   33 Ut vero manifestata est res, et renuntiatum est regi Persarum quod in loco, in quo ignem absconderant hi, qui translati fuerant, sacerdotes, aqua apparuit, de qua Nehemias et, qui cum eo erant, purificaverunt ea, quae essent sacrificii,
   34 circumsaepiens autem rex et rem diligenter examinans, templum fecit.
   35 Et quibus gratificabatur rex, multa dona accipiebat et tribuebat.
   36 Appellaverunt autem, qui cum Nehemia erant, hunc locum Nephthar, quod interpretatur Purificatio; vocatur autem apud plures Nephthai.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

Apocrypha

   1 The brethren, the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the land of Judea, wish unto the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt health and peace:
   2 God be gracious unto you, and remember his covenant that he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants;
   3 And give you all an heart to serve him, and to do his will, with a good courage and a willing mind;
   4 And open your hearts in his law and commandments, and send you peace,
   5 And hear your prayers, and be at one with you, and never forsake you in time of trouble.
   6 And now we be here praying for you.
   7 What time as Demetrius reigned, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom,
   8 And burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.
   9 And now see that ye keep the feast of tabernacles in the month Casleu.
   10 In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:
   11 Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank him highly, as having been in battle against a king.
   12 For he cast them out that fought within the holy city.
   13 For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Naneas priests.
   14 For Antiochus, as though he would marry her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in name of a dowry.
   15 Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entered with a small company into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in:
   16 And opening a privy door of the roof, they threw stones like thunderbolts, and struck down the captain, hewed them in pieces, smote off their heads and cast them to those that were without.
   17 Blessed be our God in all things, who hath delivered up the ungodly.
   18 Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the altar.
   19 For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
   20 Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;
   21 Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water.
   22 When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone, which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marvelled.
   23 And the priests made a prayer whilst the sacrifice was consuming, I say, both the priests, and all the rest, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering thereunto, as Neemias did.
   24 And the prayer was after this manner; O Lord, Lord God, Creator of all things, who art fearful and strong, and righteous, and merciful, and the only and gracious King,
   25 The only giver of all things, the only just, almighty, and everlasting, thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble, and didst choose the fathers, and sanctify them:
   26 Receive the sacrifice for thy whole people Israel, and preserve thine own portion, and sanctify it.
   27 Gather those together that are scattered from us, deliver them that serve among the heathen, look upon them that are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that thou art our God.
   28 Punish them that oppress us, and with pride do us wrong.
   29 Plant thy people again in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.
   30 And the priests sung psalms of thanksgiving.
   31 Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones.
   32 When this was done, there was kindled a flame: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar.
   33 So when this matter was known, it was told the king of Persia, that in the place, where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared water, and that Neemias had purified the sacrifices therewith.
   34 Then the king, inclosing the place, made it holy, after he had tried the matter.
   35 And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratify.
   36 And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as to say, a cleansing: but many men call it Nephi.