Until Luther, most bibles included the apocrypha. At first Luther was not anti Jewish, but in later years he became extremely so. He insisted on eliminating the apocrypha. Most of it covers the 400 years before Christ, a period our bibles do not cover. He also wanted the book of Hebrews taken from our bibles because it was too Jewish, but that book is included.
The King James and Geneva bible included the apocrypha. The Puritans and Pilgrims used this bible.
When it was decided exclude these books from in our bible, they also excluded the prayer of Manasseh from the end of Chronicals. Manasseh was a wicked king of Judah who repented. We do not have his prayer of repentance in our bibles.