Round 9: 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 the Temple. A vision experienced by Ananias tells him to visit this city’s Straight Street and lay his hands on a praying man. A former tentmaker escapes this former (10[1])capital of Aram in a basket that is lowered from a wall (-5[1])to avoid arrest. (-5[1])A vision asking “why do you persecute me” is experienced by that man before (-5[1])he is struck blind and sent to this city. For 10 points, Saul became Paul after (10[1])he saw (10[1])a vision of Christ while on the road to what city, the capital of Syria? (10[3])■END■

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