2 Maccabees
- "2 Machabeis" in the Wycliffe version of the Bible (1380s)
- "2 Machabees" in the Douay-Rheims version (1610)
- "2 Maccabees" in the Authorized Version (1611)
- "2 Maccabees" in the King James version (1769)
2 Maccabees is a book of the Septuagint, the Greek Jewish Scriptures. It is accepted as canonical by Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Christians, but rejected by Protestants and Jews. The author is unknown, but claims that the work is an abridgment of a 5-volume work by Jason of Cyrene. It was probably written around ~150 BCE–70 BCE.
English-language translations of Makkabaion 2 include: