Round 8: Tossup 6

The spoils of Samaria and this city’s wealth are prophesied to be carried away before Maher-shalal-hash-baz utters “my father” or “my mother” for the first time. An oracle concerning this city’s future as a “heap of ruins” in Isaiah 17 may have been fulfilled by King Ahaz after he bribed Tiglath-Pileser III with silver and gold stolen from (-5[1])the Temple. A vision experienced by Ananias tells him to visit this city’s Straight Street and lay his hands on a praying (10[1])man. A former tentmaker escapes this former capital of Aram in a basket that is lowered from a wall to avoid arrest. A vision asking “why do you (-5[1])persecute me” is experienced by that man before he is struck blind and sent (10[1])to this city. For 10 points, Saul became Paul after he saw a vision of Christ while on the road to what city, the capital of Syria? (10[1]0[1])■END■

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