Bible Encyclopedia: Ambition: Absalom

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Adonijah
... From her and from his father we may assume that Adonijah inherited a tendency to
ambition and self-conceit such as Absalom inherited from the union of David ...
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Pardoned Sin Punished
... the stalking-horse for criminal ambition, nor is it the last. Politicians are but
too apt to use it as a cloak for their personal ends. Absalom talking about ...
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The Wail of a Broken Heart
... a striking contrast between the actual and the designed burial-place of Absalom. ...
That gloomy pit preaches anew the vanity of 'vaulting ambition which o'erleaps ...
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On Heresies.
... heresies, nor to separate from those of the same sentiment out of ambition. ... For neither
did Absalom nor Abdadan [3160] escape without punishment; nor Corah and ...
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King of Kings and Lord of Lords
... But their ambition, appetites, and worldly policy, engaged them in such measures,
as the ... He permitted Ahithophel to give that counsel to Absalom, which though ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 2/sermon xxxviii king of kings.htm

"In the Volume of the Book it is Written of Me" (Heb. . .
... 9:1). But they said, "Let us make us a name lest we be scattered upon the face of
the whole earth." As we have seen, Nimrod's ambition was to ... 9. Absalom. ...
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Homilies on Galatians and Ephesians.
... Absalom, [4]122. Achan, his sin brought calamities upon all, [5]79. ... Ambition
of those who wished to introduce circumcision, [15]42. ...
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Barzillai
... son; with the result that in the forest of Ephraim Absalom's army was ... say that either
here or elsewhere in Scripture, a wise and healthy ambition is discouraged ...
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Preface.
... upon themselves, in the estimation of mankind, by their ambition, their tyranny,
or ... The story of Absalom's undutifulness and rebellion, of David's adultery and ...
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Greek and Jew
... rose the shafts of monuments and memorials, old as the pride of Absalom, new as ... For
a moment ambition struggled nobly in the breast of the man that overlooked ...
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2 Samuel 15:1-13
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
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2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called to this day, Absalom's place.
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Subtopics

Ambition

Ambition: Aaron and Miriam

Ambition: Abimelech

Ambition: Absalom

Ambition: Adam and Eve

Ambition: Adonijah

Ambition: Ahithophel

Ambition: Antichrist

Ambition: Builders of Babel

Ambition: Christ Condemns

Ambition: Connected With: Covetousness