11 ¶ And when David heard the things that the Pharisees did say, behold, he arose from his seat in the council chamber and spake unto all them that were there.
12 And he lashed the Pharisees with his tongue, sparing them not. And because he was of them, therefore were the words that he did say unto them passing apt, so that they did wriggle in their seats as worms that are upon an hot plate.
13 And them that would preserve the nation's honour at a cost of blood, these did he sustain with the strength of his doings and the whole might of his oratory.
14 ¶ And when the publicans and the priests and those that had cursed him in the market places were told what he had done, they were amazed that such a thing could come to pass.
15 And they said unto each other, What manner of man is this that hath for so long been against us, yet now speaketh our very minds?
16 And they raised him up and made him to be ruler over them, and he did find more favour amongst those people than he had found amongst the Pharisees in the time that was gone.
17 ¶ And it came to pass that whatsoever there was to be done, that thing did David do; verily, his capacities were as manifold as the lies of a woman accused.
18 And they made him chief over the munitioners, and he did make him engines of war and instruments of siege, and other implements of battle also, the quantity whereof exceeded calculation.
19 And nobody throughout all the land excelled him in energy and in ingenuity of the mind. And he did even make the workers to work; and this was a thing that was never before known in the land of En.
20 And when the men of Ire, because they were never content, waxed angry, the one with the other, and there was like to be rebellion amongst them, and there was need of a mediator for to judge between them,