Bible Brothers: A Comedy Podcast About The Bible · Dan Klein

203. 2 Chronicles 12 - Rematch with Egypt (w/ Noah Garfinkel)

February 22, 2026·1 hr 18 min·25 clips

Dan Klein opens by insisting Bible Brothers is still just a podcast where they read the Bible. He brings in Noah Garfinkel, a TV writer and comedian, and the long-friend chemistry is immediate enough to hear. The reading moves through 2 Chronicles 12 and 13. That means kings, again. Good kings, bad kings, and the recurring suspicion that those labels are doing more work than the people inside them. Dan treats that as both the burden and the job. Shishak shows up and makes Judah look ridiculous. The episode leans into the disaster instead of pretending it has dignity. Shemaiah the prophet arrives to tell Rehoboam and the princes that they have forsaken God. The rulers respond fast. They humble themselves almost immediately, which is its own kind of comedy. The hosts keep asking what, exactly, they were even getting out of the whole forsaking thing. They notice how retellings can flatten the details that would make the story easier to understand. Rather than tidy it up, they treat the confusion as part of the material. A war passage turns into a riff about border security and illegal entry language. The joke keeps expanding until the ancient politics feel weirdly current and stupid. Noah keeps the pace loose without turning it into a lecture. Dan keeps the show in its fake-corporate lane while also sounding like he has no interest in pretending this is normal. The episode is full of the show’s usual mix of curiosity, profanity, and half-serious attention. It ends the way Bible Brothers usually ends, with the Bible still open and the joke still moving.

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Bible Brothers covers 2 Chronicles 12 and 13 with Dan Klein hosting and Noah Garfinkel, a TV writer and comedian, as guest.

Bible Brothers takes on 2 Chronicles 12 and 13 with Dan Klein hosting and Noah Garfinkel, a TV writer and comedian, as guest. The episode stays with the familiar good-or-bad-kings frame, follows Shishak's attack on Judah, and keeps the show's self-aware corporate joke running in…

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You want Bible reading that keeps veering into jokes without losing chapters 12 and 13.

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