Nehemiah 4:10 WEB

⁸  and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

⁹  But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

¹⁰  Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

¹¹  Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

¹²  It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.