Nehemiah 4:8 WEB

⁶  So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.

⁷  But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;

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.