Round 12: 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 (-5[1])Straight Street and lay his hands on a praying man. (10[1])A former tentmaker (10[2])escapes this former capital of Aram in a basket that is lowered from a wall to avoid (-5[1])arrest. A vision asking “why do you persecute (10[1])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 a vision of Christ while on the road to (10[1])what city, (10[1])the capital of Syria? (10[2])■END■

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