WHAT WAS ACACIA WOOD USED FOR IN THE BIBLE?

 TREES IN THE BIBLE

ACACIA TREES

Acacia wood comes from a large thorny tree.  It is a rot resistant hard wood from Africa.

“They shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.  You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.  You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.  You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.  You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.  The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.  You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.  

Exodus 25:10-16  (NASB 95 - New American Standard Version)

“You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.  You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.  You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.  You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.  The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.  You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.  You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.  You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

Exodus 25:23-30  (NASB95 - New American Standard Bible)

"I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive tree;
I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together, that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it."

Isaiah 41:19-20  (MEV - Modern English Version)