TOPICAL BIBLE
Ambition
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2 Samuel 15:10and Absalom sendeth spies through all the tribes of Israel, saying, ‘At your hearing the voice of the trumpet, then ye have said, Absalom hath reigned in Hebron.’2 Samuel 15:11And with Absalom have gone two hundred men, out of Jerusalem, invited ones, and they are going in their simplicity, and have not known anything;2 Samuel 15:12and Absalom sendeth Ahithophel the Gilonite, a counsellor of David, out of his city, out of Gilo, in his sacrificing sacrifices; and the conspiracy is strong, and the people are going and increasing with Absalom.2 Samuel 15:13And he who is declaring tidings cometh in unto David, saying, ‘The heart of the men of Israel hath been after Absalom.’2 Samuel 17:23And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.2 Samuel 18:18And Absalom hath taken, and setteth up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that is in the king’s valley, for he said, ‘I have no son to cause my name to be remembered;’ and he calleth the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called ‘The monument of Absalom’ unto this day.1 Kings 1:5And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, ‘I do reign;’ and he prepareth for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,2 Kings 14:9And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, ‘The thorn that is in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that is in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.2 Kings 19:23By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains—The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.Esther 5:9And Haman goeth forth on that day rejoicing and glad in heart, and at Haman’s seeing Mordecai in the gate of the king, and he hath not risen nor moved for him, then is Haman full of fury against Mordecai.Esther 5:10And Haman forceth himself, and cometh in unto his house, and sendeth, and bringeth in his friends, and Zeresh his wife,Esther 5:11and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.Esther 5:12And Haman saith, ‘Yea, Esther the queen brought none in with the king, unto the feast that she made, except myself, and also for to-morrow I am called to her, with the king,Esther 5:13and all this is not profitable to me, during all the time that I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting in the gate of the king.’Esther 6:6And Haman cometh in, and the king saith to him, ‘What—to do with the man in whose honour the king hath delighted?’ And Haman saith in his heart, ‘To whom doth the king delight to do honour more than myself?’Esther 6:7And Haman saith unto the king, ‘The man in whose honour the king hath delighted,Esther 6:8let them bring in royal clothing that the king hath put on himself, and a horse on which the king hath ridden, and that the royal crown be put on his head,Esther 6:9and to give the clothing and the horse into the hand of a man of the heads of the king, the chiefs, and they have clothed the man in whose honour the king hath delighted, and caused him to ride on the horse in a broad place of the city, and called before him: Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.’Job 20:6Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike—Job 20:7As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: ‘Where is he?’Psalm 49:11Their heart is: Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.Psalm 49:12And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.Psalm 49:13This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.Isaiah 5:8Woe to those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!Isaiah 14:12How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.Isaiah 14:13And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.Isaiah 14:14I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.Isaiah 14:15Only—unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.Habakkuk 2:5And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,Habakkuk 2:6Do not these—all of them—against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,Matthew 4:8Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,Matthew 4:9and saith to him, ‘All these to thee I will give, if falling down thou mayest bow to me.’Matthew 4:10Then saith Jesus to him, ‘Go—Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.’Matthew 16:26for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?Matthew 20:20Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,Matthew 23:5‘And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,Matthew 23:6they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,Matthew 23:7and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.Matthew 23:12and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.Mark 9:33And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, ‘What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?’Mark 9:34and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;Mark 9:35and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, ‘If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.’Mark 9:36And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,Mark 9:37‘Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.’Mark 10:35And there come near to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying, ‘Teacher, we wish that whatever we may ask for ourselves, thou mayest do for us;’Mark 10:36and he said to them, ‘What do ye wish me to do for you?’Mark 10:37and they said to him, ‘Grant to us that, one on thy right hand and one on thy left, we may sit in thy glory;’Mark 10:38and Jesus said to them, ‘Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with—to be baptized?’Mark 10:39And they said to him, ‘We are able;’ and Jesus said to them, ‘Of the cup indeed that I drink of, ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with, ye shall be baptized;Mark 10:40but to sit on my right and on my left, is not mine to give, but—to those for whom it hath been prepared.’Mark 10:41And the ten having heard, began to be much displeased at James and John,Mark 10:42but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, ‘Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them;Mark 10:43but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister,Mark 10:44and whoever of you may will to become first, he shall be servant of all;Mark 10:45for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.’Mark 12:38and he was saying to them in his teaching, ‘Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,Mark 12:39and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers,Luke 4:5And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,Luke 4:6and the Devil said to him, ‘To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;