Nehemiah 6:13

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 ¹  would be discredited. ² 

Nehemiah 13:2

13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food ³  and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

[6:13]  ¹ tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

[6:13]  ² tn Heb “would have a bad name.”

[13:2]  ³ tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.