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Tim Bulkeley is looking for humor everywhere in the Bible, and is stuck the same place that I got stuck the first time I tried to read the Bible from start to finish as a teenager: Chronicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is there humor in Chronicles? The best I could come up with is the rendering of 2 Chronicles 7:22 in The Message<\/i><\/a>: \u201cAnd Israel will be nothing but a bad joke among the peoples of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

So is there humor in Chronicles? If nothing else, there\u2019s a \u201cbad joke\u201d in one paraphrase.<\/p>\n

Can anyone reading this come up with any good<\/i> jokes in Chronicles?<\/p>\n

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