Nehemiah 4:10
But Judah said, "The strength of the carriers is failing, and there is too much dirt, and we are not able to build at the wall."
Numbers 13:31
And the men who went up with him said, "We are not able to go up to the people because they [are] stronger than us."
Numbers 32:9
When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the {Israelites} so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them.
2 Chronicles 2:18
And he appointed from them seventy thousand {to bear burdens}, eighty thousand {to quarry} in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
Psalm 11:1-2
In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?
Ezekiel 29:18
"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, he made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was rubbed bare, and every shoulder [was] rubbed raw, but a wage was not [paid] for him and for his army from Tyre for the labor that he did against it."
Haggai 1:2
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'This people says, "{The time has not come to rebuild the temple of Yahweh}.'"