“In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”History repeating itself indeed.
— Judges 17:6 and 21:25
Judges and the two books of Kings are replete with this time and time again. First knowledge and worship of the true God, then apostasy with the cycle repeated again and again. Also with wars; Kings was a history of constant warfare between the jews and their enemies.