They are still in the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles.

They were removed from the Protestant

Bible because of strong anti-Catholic sentiment in the US. That’s the short answer.

Here is the longer answer.

It is all about the Septuagint. In the third century BC, the Greek King of Egypt, Ptolemey II
invited 72 Hebrew elders to translate their scripture into Greek. According to legend, the
task was accomplished in 72 days, but more likely just the Torah, the first five books, were
translated in that time. Eventually, the Septuagint was produced, which claimed to be the
sacred scriptures of the Hebrews. The Septuagint included all the books of the Old
Testament as well as the following books: Tobit, Judith, an expanded version of Esther,
Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Letter to Jeremiah, an expanded version of
Daniel with the Prayer of Azariah, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon, 1 Maccabees, 2
Maccabees, and 1 Esdras.

In the 4th century AD, various Christian councils were meeting to determine what would be
the holy scriptures for the Christian Church. Eventually they decided on the 27 books that
made up the New Testament. At the same time they accepted the Septuagint as the Old
Testament.

However, in the 2nd century AD, before the Christians councils made their determination,
various Rabbinic councils had met to finalize the Jewish canon. The determination of the
Rabbinic councils differed from the determination of the Hebrew elders who produced the
Septuagint earlier. Essentially, the new version trimmed books that had no Hebrew original.
(Ironically, in the 1950s, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered which did include Hebrew
originals for all the Septuagint books that had been excluded, with the exception of the book
of Esther.)

When the Catholic and Orthodox split in 1054, there were a few additions made by the
Orthodox to the official canon. Essentially, they added some books to the Old Testament,
such as Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, 3 Maccabees, 2 Esdras, and 4 Maccabees, in an
appendix. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church added even more including the following:
Jubilees, Enoch, Synodicon, Diddascalia Apostolorum, Testament of the Lord, Qalementus,
and 4 Barach. These are also included by Ethiopian Jewish Synagogues.

When Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation in 1517, he also tinkered with the
canon. Like the Rabbinic councils of the 2nd century, he excluded the books of the
Septuagint that had no Hebrew original. He also set apart the New Testament books of
Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation because he disputed their theology. Few followed his
lead on the New Testament, but the Lutheran and Anglican Churches set apart the books of
the Septuagint in a separate Apocrypha.

In 1611 the King James Version of the Bible was translated and it included the Septuagint,
but it did not include the additional books added by the Orthodox churches.

In the 19th century in the United States, strong anti-Catholic sentiments resulted in all
editions of the King James Version to be purged of these “Catholic” books.