Nehemiah 6:12-13

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  6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I ²  would be discredited. ³ 

Nehemiah 13:2

13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food ⁴  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 tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

³ tn Heb “would have a bad name.”

⁴ tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.