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THE BOOK OF
NEHEMIAH
CHAPTER 13
  2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired aBalaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Footnotes
2a
Num. 22: 5.
  5 He sent messengers therefore unto aBalaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Num. 23: 11.
  11 And Balak said unto aBalaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to bcurse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.