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II Kings Chapter 18

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Jehu, a descendant of Jehu, murders his father Ahab and his brothers to take the throne of Israel. He then kills the high priest Zimri and his son Abijah, seizing the priesthood. The chapter also records the deaths of the prophet Elisha and the king of Aram, illustrating divine judgment.

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(1) Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
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II Kings 18:9II Kings 15:30II Kings 17:1II Kings 16:20I Chronicles 3:13II Chronicles 28:27II Chronicles 29:1Matthew 1:9Matthew 1:10

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Revelation 8:12II Kings 17:1II Samuel 18:2I Kings 15:33Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:12

(2) Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
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II Chronicles 29:1

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II Chronicles 29:1II Kings 14:2II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 25:1I Kings 22:42II Kings 15:33

(3) And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
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II Kings 20:3Exodus 15:26Deuteronomy 6:18II Chronicles 31:20II Chronicles 31:21Job 33:27Psalms 119:128Romans 7:12Ephesians 6:1II Kings 22:2I Kings 3:14I Kings 11:4

(4) He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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II Kings 12:3II Kings 14:4II Kings 15:4II Kings 15:35Leviticus 26:30I Kings 3:2I Kings 3:3I Kings 15:14I Kings 22:43Psalms 78:58Ezekiel 20:28Ezekiel 20:29

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II Chronicles 34:4II Kings 11:18II Kings 23:14II Chronicles 23:17II Chronicles 31:1II Kings 23:5

(5) He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
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II Kings 19:10II Chronicles 32:7II Chronicles 32:8Job 13:15Psalms 13:5Psalms 27:1Psalms 27:2Psalms 46:1Psalms 46:2Psalms 84:12Psalms 146:5Psalms 146:6

(6) For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
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Deuteronomy 10:20Joshua 23:8Acts 11:23II Kings 17:13II Kings 17:16II Kings 17:19Jeremiah 11:4John 14:15John 14:21John 15:10John 15:14I John 5:3

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John 15:10

(7) And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
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Genesis 21:22Genesis 39:2Genesis 39:3I Samuel 18:14II Chronicles 15:2Psalms 46:11Psalms 60:12Matthew 1:23Matthew 28:20Acts 7:9Acts 7:10I Samuel 18:5

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II Kings 17:4

(8) He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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I Chronicles 4:41II Chronicles 28:18Isaiah 14:29II Kings 17:9II Chronicles 26:10Isaiah 5:2

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Jeremiah 47:1II Kings 17:9I Samuel 13:3II Samuel 8:1I Chronicles 18:1I Samuel 7:7

(9) And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
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II Kings 18:1II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:5II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:3II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11II Kings 17:12II Kings 17:13

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II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:6II Kings 18:14II Kings 6:25II Kings 17:3II Kings 17:5

(10) And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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Hosea 13:16Amos 3:11Amos 3:12Amos 3:13Amos 3:14Amos 3:15Amos 4:1Amos 4:2Amos 4:3Amos 6:7Amos 9:1Amos 9:2

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II Kings 17:6II Kings 18:9

(11) And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
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II Kings 17:6II Kings 19:11I Chronicles 5:26Isaiah 7:8Isaiah 8:4Isaiah 9:9Isaiah 9:10Isaiah 9:11Isaiah 9:12Isaiah 9:13Isaiah 9:14Isaiah 9:15

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II Kings 17:6I Chronicles 5:26II Kings 17:4Genesis 2:14II Kings 15:20II Kings 15:29

(12) Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
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II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11II Kings 17:12II Kings 17:13II Kings 17:14II Kings 17:15II Kings 17:16II Kings 17:17II Kings 17:18

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Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Jeremiah 34:18

(13) Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
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II Chronicles 32:1II Chronicles 32:2II Chronicles 32:3II Chronicles 32:4II Chronicles 32:5II Chronicles 32:6II Chronicles 32:7II Chronicles 32:8II Chronicles 32:9II Chronicles 32:10II Chronicles 32:11II Chronicles 32:12

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II Kings 18:14Isaiah 36:1II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:16II Kings 19:20II Chronicles 32:1

(14) And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
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II Kings 18:7I Kings 20:4Proverbs 29:25Luke 14:32

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I Chronicles 29:7Ezra 8:26Matthew 25:20II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:16Matthew 25:22

(15) And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
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II Kings 12:18II Kings 16:8I Kings 15:15I Kings 15:18I Kings 15:19II Chronicles 16:2

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I Kings 15:18II Kings 20:13Isaiah 39:2Esther 8:8Exodus 38:17II Kings 14:14

(16) At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
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I Kings 6:31I Kings 6:32I Kings 6:33I Kings 6:34I Kings 6:35II Chronicles 29:3

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II Kings 18:14II Kings 19:14II Kings 20:12II Kings 20:13II Kings 20:14II Chronicles 32:26

(17) And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
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II Chronicles 32:9Isaiah 20:1Isaiah 36:2II Kings 20:20Isaiah 7:3Isaiah 22:9Isaiah 22:10Isaiah 22:11

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Isaiah 36:2Isaiah 7:3II Kings 18:14Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5

(18) And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
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II Kings 19:2Isaiah 22:20Isaiah 22:21Isaiah 22:22Isaiah 22:23Isaiah 22:24Isaiah 36:3Isaiah 36:22Isaiah 37:2Isaiah 22:15Isaiah 22:16Isaiah 22:17

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II Kings 18:37Isaiah 36:22Isaiah 36:3II Kings 19:2Isaiah 37:2II Kings 18:26

(19) And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
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II Chronicles 32:10Isaiah 10:8Isaiah 10:9Isaiah 10:10Isaiah 10:11Isaiah 10:12Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14Isaiah 36:4Isaiah 37:13Daniel 4:30II Kings 18:22

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Isaiah 36:4II Kings 18:14II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:16II Kings 18:17II Kings 19:10

(20) Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
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Proverbs 21:30Proverbs 21:31

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Isaiah 36:5Joshua 14:11Isaiah 49:4Romans 2:22II Samuel 17:14

(21) Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
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Isaiah 36:6Ezekiel 29:6Ezekiel 29:7Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 30:7Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:2Isaiah 31:3II Kings 17:4Jeremiah 46:17

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Isaiah 36:6Genesis 41:25Jeremiah 46:25Ezekiel 40:5Ezekiel 40:7

(22) But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
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II Kings 18:5Daniel 3:15Matthew 27:43II Kings 18:4II Chronicles 31:1II Chronicles 32:12Isaiah 36:7I Corinthians 2:15

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Isaiah 36:7I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Job 8:14Genesis 32:17Genesis 38:25

(23) Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
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I Samuel 17:42I Samuel 17:44I Kings 20:10I Kings 20:18Nehemiah 4:2Nehemiah 4:3Nehemiah 4:4Nehemiah 4:5Psalms 123:3Psalms 123:4Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14

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Isaiah 36:8Revelation 8:12Ruth 3:13II Kings 17:4II Chronicles 32:14II Chronicles 32:15

(24) How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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Isaiah 10:8Daniel 2:37Daniel 2:38Daniel 4:22Daniel 4:37II Kings 18:21Deuteronomy 17:16Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:3Isaiah 36:6Isaiah 36:9Jeremiah 37:7

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Isaiah 36:9I Kings 10:26II Kings 8:12II Chronicles 1:14Exodus 15:26Job 39:11

(25) Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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II Kings 19:6II Kings 19:22II Kings 19:23II Kings 19:24II Kings 19:25II Kings 19:26II Kings 19:27II Kings 19:28II Kings 19:29II Kings 19:30II Kings 19:31II Kings 19:32

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Genesis 18:28Genesis 19:13Numbers 33:52Deuteronomy 9:3Joshua 11:20II Samuel 14:11

(26) Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
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Ezra 4:7Isaiah 36:11Isaiah 36:12Daniel 2:4

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Isaiah 36:11Esther 8:9Nehemiah 13:24II Kings 18:37Isaiah 36:22II Kings 18:28

(27) But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
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II Kings 6:25Deuteronomy 28:53Deuteronomy 28:54Deuteronomy 28:55Deuteronomy 28:56Deuteronomy 28:57Psalms 73:8Lamentations 4:5Ezekiel 4:13Ezekiel 4:15

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Isaiah 36:12Genesis 24:10Genesis 24:12Genesis 24:27Exodus 21:6Deuteronomy 23:15

(28) Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
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II Chronicles 32:18Isaiah 36:13Isaiah 36:14Isaiah 36:15Isaiah 36:16Isaiah 36:17Isaiah 36:18II Kings 18:19Ezra 7:12Psalms 47:2Isaiah 10:8Isaiah 10:9

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Isaiah 36:13II Kings 18:26Esther 8:9Isaiah 36:11II Kings 17:4Nehemiah 13:24

(29) Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
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Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9II Chronicles 32:11II Chronicles 32:15Daniel 3:15Daniel 3:16Daniel 3:17Daniel 6:16John 19:10John 19:11II Thessalonians 2:4II Thessalonians 2:8

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II Chronicles 32:15Isaiah 36:14II Chronicles 32:14Daniel 3:17

(30) Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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II Kings 19:10II Kings 19:22Psalms 4:2Psalms 11:1Psalms 22:7Psalms 22:8Psalms 71:9Psalms 71:11Psalms 125:1Psalms 125:2Matthew 27:43Luke 23:35

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Isaiah 36:15II Kings 18:14Isaiah 36:18II Corinthians 1:10II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:16

(31) Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
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Genesis 32:20Genesis 33:11Proverbs 18:16I Kings 4:20I Kings 4:25Zechariah 3:10

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Isaiah 36:16Joel 1:12Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 2:22

(32) Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
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II Kings 18:11II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:23II Kings 24:14II Kings 24:15II Kings 24:16II Kings 25:11Exodus 3:8Numbers 13:26Numbers 13:27Numbers 14:8Deuteronomy 8:7

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Romans 14:8II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 31:5Nehemiah 5:11Mark 2:22Genesis 42:2

(33) Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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II Kings 19:12II Kings 19:13II Kings 19:17II Kings 19:18II Chronicles 32:14II Chronicles 32:15II Chronicles 32:16II Chronicles 32:17II Chronicles 32:19Isaiah 10:10Isaiah 36:18Isaiah 36:19

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Judges 10:6II Kings 17:4Isaiah 36:18II Kings 18:34Isaiah 36:19

(34) Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
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II Kings 19:13Numbers 13:21II Samuel 8:9Jeremiah 49:23II Kings 17:24II Kings 17:25II Kings 17:26II Kings 17:27II Kings 17:28II Kings 17:29II Kings 17:30II Kings 17:31

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Judges 10:6Isaiah 36:19II Kings 19:13Exodus 20:23Exodus 34:15Exodus 34:16

(35) Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
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II Kings 19:17Daniel 3:15Exodus 5:2II Chronicles 32:15Job 15:25Job 15:26Isaiah 10:15Isaiah 37:23Isaiah 37:24Isaiah 37:25Isaiah 37:26Isaiah 37:27

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Judges 10:6I Samuel 4:8II Kings 18:34II Chronicles 32:14II Chronicles 32:17Isaiah 36:18

(36) But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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Psalms 38:13Psalms 38:14Psalms 39:1Proverbs 9:7Proverbs 26:4Amos 5:13Matthew 7:6

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Esther 3:3Esther 8:8Isaiah 36:21II Chronicles 29:25Esther 2:8Esther 3:12

(37) Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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II Kings 5:7II Kings 22:11II Kings 22:19Genesis 37:29Genesis 37:34Job 1:20Isaiah 33:7Isaiah 36:21Isaiah 36:22Jeremiah 36:24Matthew 26:65

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Isaiah 36:22II Kings 18:18Isaiah 36:3II Kings 18:26II Kings 19:2Isaiah 37:2

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