Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, went to him quietly, and drove the peg through his temple into the ground, while he was fast asleep from exhaustion. So he died.
In context
19He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; I am thirsty.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again. 20He said to her, “Stand at the entrance of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’” 21Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, went to him quietly, and drove the peg through his temple into the ground, while he was fast asleep from exhaustion. So he died. 22Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him and said, “Come, and I will show you the man you are looking for.” He went in with her, and there was Sisera, lying dead, with the peg through his temple. 23So on that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
