Ptolemais

Ptolemais appears once in Scripture in Luke's narration of Paul's final voyage to Jerusalem: "And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day. And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea, and entered into the house of Philip the evangelist" (Acts 21:7-8). Ptolemais was the Hellenistic-era rename of the ancient Phoenician port of Acco (Judges 1:31; one of the towns Asher could not drive out), bestowed by Ptolemy II of Egypt in the 3rd century BCE. The crusaders later refortified it as Acre, and it remains the principal harbor of the western Galilee under its modern name.