“She put her hand to the tent peg,and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer.With the hammer she struck Sisera.She struck through his head.Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.”
Judges 5:26 (WEB)
Context Reading
24“Jael shall be blessed above women,the wife of Heber the Kenite;blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25He asked for water.She gave him milk.She brought him butter in a lordly dish. 26She put her hand to the tent peg,and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer.With the hammer she struck Sisera.She struck through his head.Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples. 27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.At her feet he bowed, he fell.Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 28“Through the window she looked out, and cried:Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice.‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’