TOPICAL BIBLE
Ambition
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2 Samuel 15:10But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”2 Samuel 15:11Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.2 Samuel 15:12Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.2 Samuel 15:13A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”2 Samuel 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.2 Samuel 18:18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king’s dale; for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.1 Kings 1:5Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.2 Kings 14:9Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.2 Kings 19:23By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.Esther 5:9Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.Esther 5:10Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.Esther 5:12Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.Esther 5:13Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”Esther 6:6So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”Esther 6:7Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,Esther 6:8let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set.Esther 6:9Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”Job 20:6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,Job 20:7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’Psalm 49:11Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.Psalm 49:12But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.Psalm 49:13This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!Isaiah 14:13You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”Isaiah 14:15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.Habakkuk 2:5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.Habakkuk 2:6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!Matthew 4:8Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.Matthew 4:9He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”Matthew 4:10Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”Matthew 16:26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?Matthew 20:20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.Matthew 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,Matthew 23:6and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,Matthew 23:7the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.Matthew 23:12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.Mark 9:33He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”Mark 9:34But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.Mark 9:35He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”Mark 9:36He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,Mark 9:37“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”Mark 10:35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”Mark 10:36He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”Mark 10:37They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”Mark 10:38But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”Mark 10:39They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;Mark 10:40but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”Mark 10:41When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.Mark 10:42Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.Mark 10:43But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.Mark 10:44Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.Mark 10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”Mark 12:38In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,Mark 12:39and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:Luke 4:5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.Luke 4:6The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.