Ptolemais in Biblical History

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What is Ptolemais?
PTOLEMA'IS
(from one of the Ptolemies of Egypt), the city called Accho in Jewish annals, and Ptolemais under Macedonian and Roman rule. It is often mentioned in the Apocrypha. 1 Macc. 5: 15, 22, 55; 2 Macc. 13: 24, 25, etc. Paul, on returning from his third missionary-tour, visited Ptolemais, and abode there one day. Acts 21:7. The place is now called Akka, or St. Jean d'Acre, the name given to it by the Knights of St. John, who settled there soon after the conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin. a.d. 1187. See Accho.

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