Liber Secundus Maccabaeorum

II Maccabaeorum, chapter 13 in the Vulgate version.

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

Chapter 13 Vulgate

   1 Anno centesimo quadrage simo nono his, qui erant cir ca Iudam, notum factum est Antiochum Eupatorem venire cum multitudine adversus Iudaeam
   2 et cum eo Lysiam procuratorem et praepositum negotiorum, unumquemque habentem exercitum Graecum peditum centum decem milia et equitum quinque milia trecentos et elephantos viginti duos, currus autem cum falcibus trecentos.
   3 Commiscuit autem se illis et Menelaus et cum multa fallacia hortabatur Antiochum non pro patriae salute, sed sperans se constitui in principatum.
   4 Sed Rex regum suscitavit animos Antiochi in peccatorem; et, suggerente Lysia hunc esse causam omnium malorum, iussit, ut est consuetudo in loco, adductum in Beroeam necari.
   5 Erat autem in loco turris quinquaginta cubitorum, cineris plena, et machinam habebat volubilem undique praecipitem in cinerem.
   6 Illic reum sacrilegii vel quorundam etiam aliorum malorum summitatem factum, omnes propellunt ad interitum.
   7 Et tali lege praevaricatorem legis contigit mori, nec terram adeptum Menelaum.
   8 Valde iuste: nam, quia multa erga aram delicta commisit, cuius ignis et cinis erat sanctus, ipse in cinere mortem reportavit.
   9 Sed rex mente efferatus veniebat, peiora quam quae sub patre suo facta erant, ostensurus Iudaeis.
   10 Quibus Iudas cognitis, praecepit populo, ut die ac nocte Dominum invocarent, si quando et alias etiam nunc adiuvaret eos,
   11 quippe qui lege et patria sanctoque templo in eo essent ut privarentur; ac populum, qui nuper paululum respirasset, ne sineret blasphemis nationibus subdi.
   12 Omnibus itaque simul idem facientibus et rogantibus misericordem Dominum cum fletu et ieiuniis et prostratione per triduum sine intermissione, hortatus eos Iudas praecepit adesse.
   13 Ipse vero seorsum cum senioribus cogitavit, prius quam regis exercitus invaderet Iudaeam et obtinerent civitatem, egressos res adiudicare auxilio Dei.
   14 Dans itaque procurationem Creatori mundi, exhortatus suos, ut fortiter dimicarent usque ad mortem pro legibus, templo, civitate, patria, institutionibus, circa Modin exercitum constituit.
   15 Cumque suis dedisset signum: "Victoriam Dei", cum iuvenibus fortissimis electis, nocte aggressus castra adversus aulam regiam, interfecit viros ad duo milia et primarium elephantorum una cum eo, qui intra habitaculum erat;
   16 et postremo metu ac perturbatione castra repleverunt, rebusque prospere gestis, abierunt.
   17 Die autem iam illucescente hoc factum erat, adiuvante eum Domini protectione.
   18 Sed rex, accepto gustu audaciae Iudaeorum, artibus loca tentavit.
   19 Et Bethsuris, quae erat Iudaeorum praesidium munitum, castra admovebat; sed fugabatur, impingebat, minorabatur.
   20 His autem, qui intus erant, Iudas necessaria mittebat.
   21 Enuntiavit autem mysteria hostibus Rhodocus quidam de Iudaico exercitu; qui requisitus, comprehensus est et conclusus.
   22 Iterum rex sermonem habuit ad eos, qui erant in Bethsuris, dextram dedit, accepit, abiit;
   23 commisit cum his, qui erant cum Iuda, superatus est; cognovit rebellasse Philippum Antiochiae, qui relictus erat super negotia, confusus est; Iudaeos deprecatus est, subditus est, iuravit de omnibus, quae iusta erant, reconciliatus est et obtulit sacrificium, honoravit templum et loco exhibuit humanitatem;
   24 Maccabaeum excepit, reliquit ducem a Ptolemaide usque ad Gerrenos Hegemonidem,
   25 venit Ptolemaidam: graviter ferebant Ptolemenses amicitiae conventiones - indignabantur enim supra modum - voluerunt irrita facere pacta.
   26 Accessit Lysias ad tribunal, exposuit rationem congruenter, persuasit, sedavit, tranquillos fecit, regressus est Antiochiam. Hoc modo res gestae a rege, adventus et profectionis eius, processerunt.

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 In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great power into Judea,
   2 And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
   3 Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safeguard of the country, but because he thought to have been made governor.
   4 But the King of kings moved Antiochus mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
   5 Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged down into the ashes.
   6 And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
   7 Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:
   8 For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
   9 Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his fathers time.
   10 Which things when Judas perceived, he commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord night and day, that if ever at any other time, he would now also help them, being at the point to be put from their law, from their country, and from the holy temple:
   11 And that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.
   12 So when they had all done this together, and besought the merciful Lord with weeping and fasting, and lying flat upon the ground three days long, Judas, having exhorted them, commanded they should be in a readiness.
   13 And Judas, being apart with the elders, determined, before the kings host should enter into Judea, and get the city, to go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.
   14 So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world, and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he camped by Modin:
   15 And having given the watchword to them that were about him, Victory is of God; with the most valiant and choice young men he went in into the kings tent by night, and slew in the camp about four thousand men, and the chiefest of the elephants, with all that were upon him.
   16 And at last they filled the camp with fear and tumult, and departed with good success.
   17 This was done in the break of the day, because the protection of the Lord did help him.
   18 Now when the king had taken a taste of the manliness of the Jews, he went about to take the holds by policy,
   19 And marched toward Bethsura, which was a strong hold of the Jews: but he was put to flight, failed, and lost of his men:
   20 For Judas had conveyed unto them that were in it such things as were necessary.
   21 But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews host, disclosed the secrets to the enemies; therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.
   22 The king treated with them in Bethsura the second time, gave his hand, took theirs, departed, fought with Judas, was overcome;
   23 Heard that Philip, who was left over the affairs in Antioch, was desperately bent, confounded, intreated the Jews, submitted himself, and sware to all equal conditions, agreed with them, and offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and dealt kindly with the place,
   24 And accepted well of Maccabeus, made him principal governor from Ptolemais unto the Gerrhenians;
   25 Came to Ptolemais: the people there were grieved for the covenants; for they stormed, because they would make their covenants void:
   26 Lysias went up to the judgment seat, said as much as could be in defence of the cause, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, returned to Antioch. Thus it went touching the kings coming and departing.