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Today's Bible Reading :: 2 Chronicles 13 - 17 (ESV)

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2 Chronicles 13

Abijah Reigns in Judah

(1Ki 15:1–8 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:1 - In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:2 - He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah[fn] the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:3 - Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:4 - Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:5 - Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:6 - Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:7 - and certain worthless scoundrels[fn] gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute[fn] and could not withstand them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:8 - “And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination[fn] with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:10 - But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:12 - Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:13 - Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops[fn] were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:14 - And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:15 - Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:16 - The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:18 - Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron[fn] with its villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:20 - Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the LORD struck him down, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:21 - But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:22 - The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
ESV Footnotes
Spelled Maacah in 1 Kings 15:2
Hebrew worthless men, sons of Belial
Hebrew soft of heart
Hebrew to fill his hand
Hebrew they
Or Ephrain

2 Chronicles 14

Asa Reigns in Judah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:1 - [fn] Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.
(1Ki 15:9–15 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:2 - [fn] And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:4 - and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:6 - He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:8 - And Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah, armed with large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin that carried shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 - Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:10 - And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:11 - And Asa cried to the LORD his God, “O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah[fn] carried away very much spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:14 - And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:15 - And they struck down the tents of those who had livestock and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
ESV Footnotes
Ch 13:23 in Hebrew
Ch 14:1 in Hebrew
Hebrew They

2 Chronicles 15

Asa’s Religious Reforms

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:1 - The Spirit of God came[fn] upon Azariah the son of Oded,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:2 - and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:3 - For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:4 - but when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:5 - In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:6 - They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7 - But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:8 - As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10 - They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:12 - And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:13 - but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:14 - They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:17 - But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:18 - And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19 - And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.
ESV Footnotes
Or was
Hebrew the vestibule of the LORD

2 Chronicles 16

Asa’s Last Years

(1Ki 15:16–22 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1 - In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king’s house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:3 - “There is a covenant[fn] between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:5 - And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and let his work cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:6 - Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:7 - At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8 - Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:9 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless[fn] toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10 - Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.
(1Ki 15:23, 24 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:11 - The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12 - In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:13 - And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
ESV Footnotes
Or treaty; twice in this verse
Or whole

2 Chronicles 17

Jehoshaphat Reigns in Judah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:1 - Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place and strengthened himself against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:2 - He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:5 - Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - His heart was courageous in the ways of the LORD. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:7 - In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:8 - and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9 - And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the LORD with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:10 - And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:11 - Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute, and the Arabians also brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:12 - And Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:13 - and he had large supplies in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:14 - This was the muster of them by fathers’ houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:15 - and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:16 - and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the LORD, with 200,000 mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:17 - Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, with 200,000 men armed with bow and shield;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:18 - and next to him Jehozabad with 180,000 armed for war.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:19 - These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
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