Nehemiah 6:12

6:12 I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat. ¹ 

Nehemiah 13:2

13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food ²  and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

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¹ tn Heb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”

² tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.