Round 11: 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 (10[1])and lay his hands on a praying man. (-5[1])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 persecute me” is experienced by that man before he is struck blind and sent to this city. For 10 points, Saul became Paul after he saw (10[1])a vision of Christ while on the road to what city, the capital (10[1])of Syria? ■END■

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