Good boring leadership

Of course, you know all about Tola, the great leader of Israel, dont you? 

Don't you?

Well his name was Tola and he ruled for 23 years.  He was from a town called Shamir, where he was buried when he died.

There are no accounts of great battles during the time he judged Israel, no great massacres, no conquests, controversies or calamities. Just plain old, boring old running of the country, carrying out justice and adminsitering God's laws.

If only all the Bible's rulers were that boring and that good.  If only our own, present day rulers were as boringly efficient.