boards for the tabernacle and the altar of burnt offering were made of this wood and are recorded

in the following verses:

 Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its
 width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits (Exodus 37:1 NASB).

 You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a
 half cubits high (Exodus 25:23 NASB).

 You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the
 table may be carried (Exodus 25:28 NASB).

 Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. [16]
 Ten cubits {shall be} the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each
 board. [17] {There shall be} two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus you
 shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle (Exodus 26:15-17 NASB).

 And you shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the
 altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits (Exodus 27:1 NASB).

 Gopher wood was the building material Noah used to build the ark (Genesis 6:14), the first

large ship. There is little information available to give an indication of what type of wood this

was or if it is still in existence. Gopher is a word unknown elsewhere in Hebrew or allied

languages. Some consider it to be connected with gophrith, meaning "brimstone," or "pitch,"

while others connect it with kopher, also meaning "pitch"; hence, along both lines, one reaches

the probability of some resinous wood, such as pine, cedar, or cypress. A more probable

explanation is that which connects gopher with the modern Arabic kufa, a name given to the

boats made of interwoven willow branches and palm leaves with a coating of bitumen outside,

used today on the rivers and canals of Mesopotamia (Masterman 1913).

 Stone

 Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the
 great God, which is being built with huge stones (Ezra 5:8 NASB).

 The main structural components of large buildings in biblical times were of hewn stone.

The hewn stones used to construct the temple were not little stones, they were huge, as large as