The book of Judges anticipates a time when Israel would be ruled by a king, but what was the character of the kings who eventually ruled, first over a united kingdom and later over two rival kingdoms? Unfortunately, most were not good. The graphs below show the approximate length of reign of each, and are color coded to indicate whether they were considered good (green) or evil (red). In some cases, their character changed during their reign. On the first chart we have the kings of the united kingdom, followed by the......