Liber Secundus Maccabaeorum

II Maccabaeorum, chapter 8 in the Vulgate version.

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

Chapter 8 Vulgate

   1 Iudas vero Maccabaeus et, qui cum illo erant, introeuntes la tenter in castella convocabant cognatos; et eos, qui permanserunt in Iudaismo, assumentes, collegerunt circiter sex milia virorum.
   2 Et invocabant Dominum, ut respiceret in populum, qui ab omnibus calcabatur; et misereretur templo, quod contaminabatur ab impiis;
   3 et misereretur etiam pereunti civitati et incipienti solo complanari et vocem sanguinis ad se clamantis exaudiret;
   4 memoraretur quoque iniquas mortes parvulorum innocentum et blasphemias nomini suo illatas et indignaretur super his.
   5 At Maccabaeus, congregata multitudine, intolerabilis iam gentibus efficiebatur, ira Domini in misericordiam conversa.
   6 Et civitates et castella superveniens improvisus succendebat et opportuna loca occupans non paucos hostium in fugam convertens,
   7 maxime noctes in huiusmodi excursus cooperantes captabat. Et fama virtutis eius ubique diffundebatur.
   8 Videns autem Philippus paulatim virum ad profectum venire ac frequentius in prosperitatibus procedere, ad Ptolemaeum ducem Coelesyriae et Phoenicis scripsit, ut auxilium ferret regis negotiis.
   9 At ille velociter sumpsit Nicanorem Patrocli de primoribus amicis et misit, datis ei de permixtis gentibus armatis non minus viginti milibus, ut universum Iudaeorum genus deleret; adiunxit autem ei et Gorgiam virum militarem et in bellicis rebus expertum.
   10 Constituit autem Nicanor, ut regi tributum, quod Romanis erat dandum, duo milia talentorum de captivitate Iudaeorum suppleret;
   11 statimque ad maritimas civitates misit convocans ad coemptionem Iudaicorum mancipiorum, promittens se nonaginta mancipia talento distracturum, non exspectans vindictam, quae eum ab Omnipotente esset consecutura.
   12 Iudas autem, ubi comperit de Nicanoris adventu, indicavit his, qui secum erant, exercitus praesentiam.
   13 Ex quibus quidam formidantes et non credentes Dei iustitiae in fugam vertebantur et in alios locos seipsos transferebant;
   14 alii vero omnia, quae eis supererant, vendebant simulque Dominum deprecabantur, ut eriperet eos, qui ab impio Nicanore, prius quam comminus venirent, venumdati essent:
   15 et si non propter eos, sed tamen propter testamenta ad patres eorum et propter invocationem sancti et magnifici nominis eius super ipsos.
   16 Convocatis autem Maccabaeus sex milibus, qui cum ipso erant, rogabat ne ab hostibus perterrerentur neque metuerent inique venientium adversum se gentium multitudinem, sed fortiter contenderent,
   17 ante oculos habentes contumeliam, quae in locum sanctum ab his iniuste esset consummata, itemque et ludibrio habitae civitatis iniuriam, adhuc etiam veterum instituta convulsa.
   18 "Nam illi quidem armis confidunt, ait, simul et audacia; nos autem in omnipotente Deo, qui potest et venientes adversum nos et universum mundum uno nutu delere, confidimus".
   19 Cum autem admonuisset eos et de auxiliis, quae facta sunt erga parentes, et de illo sub Sennacherib, ut centum octoginta quinque milia perierunt,
   20 et de illo in Babilonia, in proelio quod eis adversus Galatas fuit, ut omnes ad rem venerunt, octo milia cum quattuor milibus Macedonum - Macedonibus haesitantibus, ipsi octo milia peremerunt centum viginti milia propter auxilium illis datum de caelo et beneficia plurima consecuti sunt C;
   21 quibus verbis cum eos constantes effecisset et paratos pro legibus et patria mori, in quattuor quasdam partes exercitum divisit.
   22 Constitutis itaque fratribus suis ducibus uniuscuiusque ordinis, Simone et Iosepho et Ionatha, subiectis unicuique millenis et quingentenis,
   23 insuper et Eleazaro, lecto sancto libro et dato signo adiutorii Dei, primae cohortis ipse ductor commisit cum Nicanore.
   24 Et facto sibi adiutore Omnipotente, interfecerunt super novem milia hostium, saucios autem et membris debilitatos maiorem partem exercitus Nicanoris reddiderunt, omnes vero fugere compulerunt.
   25 Pecunias autem eorum, qui ad emptionem illorum advenerant, abstulerunt et, cum persecuti eos fuissent satis longe, reversi sunt hora conclusi;
   26 nam erat ante sabbatum, quam ob causam non perseveraverunt insequentes eos.
   27 Cum autem ipsorum arma collegissent spoliisque hostes exuissent, circa sabbatum versabantur impensius benedicentes et confitentes Domino, qui liberavit eos in isto die misericordiae initium constituens in eos.
   28 Post sabbatum vero debilitatis et viduis et orphanis portione de spoliis data, residua ipsi cum pueris partiti sunt.
   29 His itaque gestis et communi facta obsecratione, misericordem Dominum postulabant, ut in finem servis suis reconciliaretur.
   30 Et contendentes cum his, qui cum Timotheo et Bacchide erant, super viginti milia eorum interfecerunt et munitiones excelsas facile obtinuerunt; et plures praedas diviserunt, aequaliter seipsos participes cum debilitatis et orphanis et viduis, sed et senioribus facientes.
   31 Et cum arma eorum diligenter collegissent, omnia composuerunt in locis opportunis; residua vero spolia Hierosolymam detulerunt.
   32 Et phylarchen eorum, qui cum Timotheo erant, interfecerunt, virum scelestissimum, qui in multis Iudaeos afflixerat;
   33 et cum epinicia agerent in patria, eos, qui sacras ianuas incenderant, et Callisthenem succenderunt, qui in quoddam domicilium fugerat; et dignam pro impietate mercedem tulit.
   34 Facinorosissimus autem Nicanor, qui mille negotiantes ad Iudaeorum venditionem adduxerat,
   35 humiliatus ab his, qui secundum ipsum exsistimabantur exigui esse, auxilio Domini, deposita veste gloriae, per mediterranea fugitivi more solitarius effectus venit Antiochiam, super omnia prosperatus in interitu exercitus.
   36 Et, qui Romanis promiserat se tributum de captivitate Hierosolymorum redigere, praedicabat propugnatorem habere Iudaeos, et hoc modo invulnerabiles esse, eo quod sequerentur leges ab ipso constitutas.

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 Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews religion, and assembled about six thousand men.
   2 And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon the people that was trodden down of all; and also pity the temple profaned of ungodly men;
   3 And that he would have compassion upon the city, sore defaced, and ready to be made even with the ground; and hear the blood that cried unto him,
   4 And remember the wicked slaughter of harmless infants, and the blasphemies committed against his name; and that he would shew his hatred against the wicked.
   5 Now when Maccabeus had his company about him, he could not be withstood by the heathen: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.
   6 Therefore he came at unawares, and burnt up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.
   7 But specially took he advantage of the night for such privy attempts, insomuch that the bruit of his manliness was spread every where.
   8 So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he wrote unto Ptolemeus, the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, to yield more aid to the kings affairs.
   9 Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.
   10 So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive Jews, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the king was to pay to the Romans.
   11 Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.
   12 Now when word was brought unto Judas of Nicanors coming, and he had imparted unto those that were with him that the army was at hand,
   13 They that were fearful, and distrusted the justice of God, fled, and conveyed themselves away.
   14 Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord to deliver them, being sold by the wicked Nicanor before they met together:
   15 And if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants he had made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious names sake, by which they were called.
   16 So Maccabeus called his men together unto the number of six thousand, and exhorted them not to be stricken with terror of the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen, who came wrongly against them; but to fight manfully,
   17 And to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city, whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:
   18 For they, said he, trust in their weapons and boldness; but our confidence is in the Almighty who at a beck can cast down both them that come against us, and also all the world.
   19 Moreover, he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.
   20 And he told them of the battle that they had in Babylon with the Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business, with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed an hundred and twenty thousand because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great booty.
   21 Thus when he had made them bold with these words, and ready to die for the law and the country, he divided his army into four parts;
   22 And joined with himself his own brethren, leaders of each band, to wit Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving each one fifteen hundred men.
   23 Also he appointed Eleazar to read the holy book: and when he had given them this watchword, The help of God; himself leading the first band, he joined battle with Nicanor.
   24 And by the help of the Almighty they slew above nine thousand of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanors host, and so put all to flight;
   25 And took their money that came to buy them, and pursued them far: but lacking time they returned:
   26 For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.
   27 So when they had gathered their armour together, and spoiled their enemies, they occupied themselves about the sabbath, yielding exceeding praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them unto that day, which was the beginning of mercy distilling upon them.
   28 And after the sabbath, when they had given part of the spoils to the maimed, and the widows, and orphans, the residue they divided among themselves and their servants.
   29 When this was done, and they had made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled with his servants for ever.
   30 Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.
   31 And when they had gathered their armour together, they laid them up all carefully in convenient places, and the remnant of the spoils they brought to Jerusalem.
   32 They slew also Philarches, that wicked person, who was with Timotheus, and had annoyed the Jews many ways.
   33 Furthermore at such time as they kept the feast for the victory in their country they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire upon the holy gates, who had fled into a little house; and so he received a reward meet for his wickedness.
   34 As for that most ungracious Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Jews,
   35 He was through the help of the Lord brought down by them, of whom he made least account; and putting off his glorious apparel, and discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the midland unto Antioch having very great dishonour, for that his host was destroyed.
   36 Thus he, that took upon him to make good to the Romans their tribute by means of captives in Jerusalem, told abroad, that the Jews had God to fight for them, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the laws that he gave them.