Question:
Weren’t there other books of the Bible not put in the King James Version? What were they?

Answer:
In the year 1546, the Council of Trent—convened by the Roman Catholic pope—declared the following 14 books to be part of Scripture: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach or Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1 and 2 Esdras, additional chapters of Esther, additional chapters of Daniel (including The Song of the Three Children, The Story of Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon), the Prayer of Manassas, and 1 and 2 Maccabees. These 14 books (known as “The Apocrypha”) first appeared in a Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament sometime between 300 and 400 A.D., and then were included in the translation into Latin, known as the “Vulgate.”

The Jews never accepted these books as part of Scripture, and to this day the Hebrew Old Testament contains only the 39 books with which we are familiar. Ever since the fourth century A.D. there has been agreement by Christian Bible scholars that the 66 books of the Bible as we know them today are inspired by God.

Whether the 14 books of the Apocrypha should also be considered part of the Word of God was a subject of debate by theologians for many centuries. Since 1546, the Roman Catholic Church has considered these books to be part of Scripture while Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers never accepted them as Scripture. The King James Version of 1611 contained the Apocrypha as an appendix, but from 1640 on the Bibles used by Protestants increasingly omitted the Apocrypha entirely. The main reasons for rejecting the books of the Apocrypha are: (1) the early Church fathers, who wrote in the second to fourth centuries A.D., either did not mention those books in their writings on Scripture or did not regard them to be inspired by God; and (2) they contain teaching that contradict doctrines found in the 66 books of the Bible.
Sidney Collett, in his book, “All About the Bible” (some editions have the title, “The Scripture of Truth”), has a helpful section on the Apocrypha. He notes that “although there are in the New Testament about 263 direct quotations from, and about 370 allusions to, passages in the Old Testament, yet among all these there is not a single reference, either by Christ or His apostles, to the apocryphal writings.”