Liber Secundus Maccabaeorum

II Maccabaeorum, chapter 10 in the Vulgate version.

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

Chapter 10 Vulgate

   1 Maccabaeus autem et, qui cum eo erant, Domino eos praeeunte, templum quidem et civitatem receperunt;
   2 aras autem, quas alienigenae per plateam exstruxerant, itemque delubra demoliti sunt
   3 et, purgato templo, aliud altare fecerunt et, succensis lapidibus igneque de his concepto, sacrificia obtulerunt post biennium et incensum et lucernas et panum propositionem fecerunt.
   4 Quibus autem gestis, rogaverunt Dominum prostrati in ventrem, ne amplius talibus malis inciderent, sed et, si quando peccassent, ut ab ipso cum clementia corriperentur et non blasphemis ac barbaris gentibus traderentur.
   5 Qua die autem templum ab alienigenis pollutum fuerat, contigit eadem die purificationem fieri templi vicesima quinta illius mensis, qui est Casleu.
   6 Et cum laetitia diebus octo egerunt in modum Tabernaculorum, recordantes quod ante modicum temporis diem sollemnem Tabernaculorum in montibus et in speluncis more bestiarum egerant.
   7 Propter quod thyrsos et ramos virides, adhuc et palmas habentes, hymnos tollebant ei, qui prosperavit mundari locum suum.
   8 Et decreverunt communi praecepto et decreto universae genti Iudaeorum omnibus annis agere dies istos.
   9 Res itaque de fine Antiochi, qui appellatus est Epiphanes, ita se habuerunt.
   10 Nunc autem res de Antiocho Eupatore, qui vero filius erat impii, narrabimus, illa breviantes, quae continent bellorum mala.
   11 Hic enim, suscepto regno, constituit super negotia regni Lysiam quendam Coelesyriae et Phoenicis ducem primarium.
   12 Nam Ptolemaeus, qui dicebatur Macron, quod esset iustum conservare praeferens erga Iudaeos propter in eos factam iniquitatem, conabatur, quae ad illos spectabant, pacifice peragere.
   13 Unde accusatus ab amicis apud Eupatorem et cum frequenter se proditorem esse audiret, eo quod Cyprum creditam sibi a Philometore deseruisset et ad Antiochum Epiphanem transiisset, cumque amplius nobilem potestatem digne ferre non posset, veneno hausto vitam finivit.
   14 Gorgias autem, cum esset dux locorum, externos milites alebat et frequenter adversus Iudaeos bellum instruebat.
   15 Atque una cum ipso etiam Idumaei, qui tenebant opportunas munitiones, exercebant Iudaeos et fugatos ab Hierosolymis suscipientes bellum alere tentabant.
   16 Hi vero, qui erant cum Maccabaeo, supplicatione facta et rogato Deo, ut esset sibi adiutor, impetum fecerunt in munitiones Idumaeorum;
   17 quas fortiter aggressi, loca obtinuerunt et omnes, qui pugnabant in muris, propulerunt et occurrentes interemerunt et non minus viginti milibus trucidaverunt.
   18 Quidam autem, cum confugissent non minus quam novem milia in duas turres valde munitas et omnia ad repugnandum habentes,
   19 Maccabaeus, ad eorum expugnationem relicto Simone et Iosepho itemque Zacchaeo eisque, qui cum ipso erant satis multis, ipse ad ea, quae amplius perurgebant, loca discessit.
   20 Hi vero, qui cum Simone erant, cupiditate ducti a quibusdam, qui in turribus erant, suasi sunt pecunia et, septuaginta milibus drachmis acceptis, dimiserunt quosdam effugere.
   21 Cum autem Maccabaeo nuntiatum esset quod factum est, principibus populi congregatis accusavit quod pecunia fratres vendidissent, adversariis eorum dimissis.
   22 Hos igitur proditores factos interfecit et confestim duas turres occupavit.
   23 Armis autem in manibus omnia prospere agendo in duabus munitionibus plus quam viginti milia peremit.
   24 At Timotheus, qui prius a Iudaeis fuerat superatus, convocatis peregrinis copiis valde multis et congregatis equis, qui erant ex Asia, non paucis, adfuit quasi armis victam Iudaeam capturus.
   25 Qui autem cum Maccabaeo erant, appropinquante illo, ad supplicationem Dei terra capita aspergentes lumbosque ciliciis praecincti
   26 super crepidinem contra altare provoluti rogabant, ut sibi propitius factus inimicis eorum esset inimicus et adversariis adversaretur, sicut lex declarat.
   27 Digressi autem ab oratione, sumptis armis, longius de civitate processerunt et, proximi hostibus effecti, separatim steterunt.
   28 Cum autem lux oriens coepisset diffundi, utrique commiserunt, isti quidem prosperitatis et victoriae tamquam sponsorem habentes cum virtute refugium in Dominum, illi autem ut ducem certaminum sibi ipsis statuentes animum.
   29 Sed, cum vehemens pugna esset, apparuerunt adversariis de caelo viri quinque in equis, frenis aureis decori, et ducatum Iudaeis praestantes;
   30 ex quibus duo Maccabaeum medium accipientes suisque armis protegentes incolumem conservabant, in adversarios autem tela et fulmina iaciebant, ex quo caecitate confusi evolaverunt repleti perturbatione.
   31 Interfecti sunt autem viginti milia quingenti et equites sescenti.
   32 Timotheus vero confugit in praesidium, quod Gazara dicitur, optimam munitionem, ducatum illic habente Chaerea.
   33 Qui autem cum Maccabaeo erant laetantes obsederunt munitionem diebus quattuor.
   34 At hi qui intus erant, loci munimento confisi, supra modum maledicebant et sermones nefandos iactabant;
   35 sed, cum dies quinta illucesceret, viginti iuvenes ex his, qui cum Maccabaeo erant, accensi animis propter blasphemias, murum viriliter aggressi feroci animo, occursantem quemque caedebant;
   36 sed et alii similiter ascendentes in circumflexione contra eos, qui intus erant, turres incendebant atque ignes inferentes ipsos maledicos vivos concremabant, alii autem portas concidebant et, recepto residuo exercitu, occupaverunt civitatem;
   37 et Timotheum occultantem se in quodam lacu peremerunt et fratrem illius Chaeream et Apollophanem.
   38 Quibus gestis, in hymnis et confessionibus benedicebant Dominum, qui magnifice Israel benefaciebat et victoriam dabat illis.

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 Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, recovered the temple and the city:
   2 But the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also the chapels, they pulled down.
   3 And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, and shewbread.
   4 When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.
   5 Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu.
   6 And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains and dens like beasts.
   7 Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.
   8 They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.
   9 And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.
   10 Now will we declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the wars.
   11 So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of Celosyria and Phenice.
   12 For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto them, endeavoured to continue peace with them.
   13 Whereupon being accused of the kings friends before Eupator, and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.
   14 But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired soldiers, and nourished war continually with the Jews:
   15 And therewithall the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.
   16 Then they that were with Maccabeus made supplication, and besought God that he would be their helper; and so they ran with violence upon the strong holds of the Idumeans,
   17 And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
   18 And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to sustain the siege,
   19 Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zaccheus also, and them that were with him, who were enough to besiege them, and departed himself unto those places which more needed his help.
   20 Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some of them escape.
   21 But when it was told Maccabeus what was done, he called the governors of the people together, and accused those men, that they had sold their brethren for money, and set their enemies free to fight against them.
   22 So he slew those that were found traitors, and immediately took the two castles.
   23 And having good success with his weapons in all things he took in hand, he slew in the two holds more than twenty thousand.
   24 Now Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as though he would take Jewry by force of arms.
   25 But when he drew near, they that were with Maccabeus turned themselves to pray unto God, and sprinkled earth upon their heads, and girded their loins with sackcloth,
   26 And fell down at the foot of the altar, and besought him to be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declareth.
   27 So after the prayer they took their weapons, and went on further from the city: and when they drew near to their enemies, they kept by themselves.
   28 Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together; the one part having together with their virtue their refuge also unto the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the other side making their rage leader of their battle
   29 But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared unto the enemies from heaven five comely men upon horses, with bridles of gold, and two of them led the Jews,
   30 And took Maccabeus betwixt them, and covered him on every side with their weapons, and kept him safe, but shot arrows and lightnings against the enemies: so that being confounded with blindness, and full of trouble, they were killed.
   31 And there were slain of footmen twenty thousand and five hundred, and six hundred horsemen.
   32 As for Timotheus himself, he fled into a very strong hold, called Gazara, where Chereas was governor.
   33 But they that were with Maccabeus laid siege against the fortress courageously four days.
   34 And they that were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and uttered wicked words.
   35 Nevertheless upon the fifth day early twenty young men of Maccabeus company, inflamed with anger because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall manly, and with a fierce courage killed all that they met withal.
   36 Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,
   37 And killed Timotheus, that was hid in a certain pit, and Chereas his brother, with Apollophanes.
   38 When this was done, they praised the Lord with psalms and thanksgiving, who had done so great things for Israel, and given them the victory.