King Herod, good or bad. The king did a lot of good for the people that benefited them in they end, but the people still didn't like him. He was appointed to your Jerusalem from the Romans. He was from a area of forced Judaism, so he knew of Jewish traditions but was not a real Jewish follower. It was his knowledge of the Jewish traditions that allowed him to last as long as he did with out a rebellion.
"Herod the Great" ruled 37-4 BCE, he was impulsive and paranoid. He murdered anyone that threatened him, even his own children of wives. He did good for the people, his obsession with building made it so every person had a job, he allowed the Jewish people to pick their own High Priest, married one of their people (even though he ended up killing her, but at the time it helped), was generous during time of famine, his coins avoided pagans signs and human faces. He did everything not to directly offend the Jewish people. However they still hated him, he didn't do good for the people, he was a puppet to the Roman empire. He was a dictator but it worked for him as a ruler.
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