Ambition

How Nave’s arranged it

• Falsely charged against MosesNumbers 16:13
• Parable of the thistle, illustrating2 Kings 14:9
• UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TOJob 20:6Job 20:7Psalms 49:11–13Isaiah 5:8Habakkuk 2:5Habakkuk 2:6Habakkuk 2:9Matthew 4:8–10Matthew 16:26Matthew 20:20Matthew 23:5–7Matthew 23:12Mark 9:33–37Mark 10:35–45Mark 12:38Mark 12:39Luke 4:5–8Luke 9:25Luke 9:46Luke 11:43
• See Pride
• INSTANCES OF
• LuciferIsaiah 14:12–15
• EveGenesis 3:5Genesis 3:6
• The builders of BabelGenesis 11:4
• Aaron and MiriamNumbers 12:2–10
• Korah and his co-conspiratorsNumbers 16:3–35
• AbimelechJudges 9:1–6
• Absalom2 Samuel 15:1–132 Samuel 18:18

The passages, in Bible order (45)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 3:5

   “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 3:51 voice

   “One should consider with fear what Job says of Behemoth-Leviathan: "He shall strew gold under him like mire." Through knowledge, temptation easily leads to ruin. "You will be like God, knowing good and evil." Wherefore some men want to search beyond the way of nature, …

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2. Genesis 3:6

   When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 3:61 voice

   “That the Lord then was manifestly coming to His own things, and was sustaining them by means of that creation which is supported by Himself, and was making a recapitulation of that disobedience which had occurred in connection with a tree, through the obedience which was [exhibited by Himself when He hung] upon a tree, [the effects] also of that deception being done away with, by which that virgin Eve, who was already espoused to a man, was unhappily misled,-was happily announced, through means of the truth [spoken] by the angel to the Virgin Mary, who was [also espoused] to a man.

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3. Genesis 11:4

   “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 11:42 voices

   “Come, he said, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven. The wicked teachers make a city for themselves when, having left the heavenly city, whose architect and builder is God—that is, the holy Church—they gather their own …

   “And they arose and came from the land of the east; and, as they went through the land, they chanced upon the land of Shinar, which was exceeding broad; where they took in hand to build a tower. They sought means thereby to go up to heaven, and be able to leave their work as a memorial to those men who should come after them.

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4. Numbers 12:2–10

   “Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 12:2–101 voice

   “So then in the book of Numbers we find Moses taking an Ethiopian wife—that is to say, one who is dark or black. Because of her Mary and Aaron speak ill of him and say with indignation, "Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? Has he not also spoken to us?" Now on careful consideration the narrative here seems to lack coherence. What has their saying "Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? Has he not also spoken to us?" to do with their indignation about the Ethiopian woman?

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5. Numbers 16:3–35

   They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

   ›Commentary on Numbers 16:3–351 voice

   “Let those then who dissent learn to fear to rouse up the Lord, and to appease His priests. What! did not the earthquake swallow up Dathan, Abiron, and Korah because of their dissension? For when Korah, Dathan, and Abiron had stirred up two hundred and fifty men against Moses and Aaron to separate themselves from them, they rose up against them and said: "Let it suffice you that all the congregation are holy, every one, and the Lord is amongst them." Whereupon the Lord was angry and spoke to the whole congregation.

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6. Numbers 16:13

   Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

   ›Commentary on Numbers 16:131 voice

   “Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey?....

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7. Judges 9:1–6

   Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

   ›Commentary on Judges 9:1–61 voice

   “And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, unto his mother's brethren,....

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8. 2 Samuel 15:1–13

   Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

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   “And it came to pass after this,....

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9. 2 Samuel 17:23

   When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 17:231 voice

   “And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed,....

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10. 2 Samuel 18:18

    During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

    ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 18:181 voice

    “Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken,.... Had taken it into his head, had of himself devised it, as Kimchi explains it; he contrived the following scheme to perpetuate his memory: and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: or valley, the valley of Jehoshaphat; this pillar was of marble, as Josephus (o) says, and stood about two furlongs or a quater mile from Jerusalem.

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11. 1 Kings 1:5

    At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 1:51 voice

    “Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself,....

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12. 2 Kings 14:9

    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 14:92 voices

    “The thorn bush [mentioned here] is a tiny plant and herb and is not the blackberry bush, [whose fruits] we eat. "Since, if ever," he says, "the thorn bush were sent to a cedar, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,' it …

    “And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah the king of Judah,....

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13. 2 Kings 19:23

    Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 19:231 voice

    “And hast said - Isaiah clothes in words the thoughts of Sennacherib’s heart - thoughts of the most extreme self-confidence. Compare Isa 10:7-14, where, probably at an earlier date, the same overweening pride is ascribed to this king. With the multitude of my chariots - There are two readings here, which give, however, nearly the same sense. The more difficult and more poetical of the two is to be preferred.

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14. Esther 5:9–13

    That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

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15. Esther 6:6–9

    Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”

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    “So Haman came in,....

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16. Job 20:6

    Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

    ›Commentary on Job 20:61 voice

    “Ver. 6, 7. Though his pride mount up unto the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds: Yet he shall perish at last like the dunghill. 5. The pride of the hypocrite is said to 'mount up unto the heavens,' when his high-mindedness has the appearance of leading a heavenly life; and his 'head as it were reaches unto the clouds,' when the leading part, i.e. his intellect, is thought to equal the merits of the Saints that have gone before.

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