Nehemiah 4:10
Judah said: The strength of the workmen is giving way. There is a lot of rubbish so it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
Numbers 13:31
The men who had gone with him said: We cannot attack those people! They are too strong for us!
Numbers 32:9
They went as far as the Eshcol Valley. They saw the land. But then they discouraged the rest of the Israelites from entering the land Jehovah had given them.
2 Chronicles 2:18
He directed seventy thousand of them carry heavy loads, eighty thousand of them quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred of them supervise the work as foremen.
Psalm 11:1-2
([Psalm of David]) I have taken refuge in Jehovah. How can you say to me: Flee to your mountain like a bird?
Ezekiel 29:18
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.
Haggai 1:2
Jehovah (YHWH) of Hosts said to Haggai: These people say that this is not the right time to rebuild the Temple.