Judges 4:21 meaning and explanation

But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.

Judges 4:21, Berean Standard Bible

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Jael is the wife of Heber the Kenite, a clan at peace with Jabin, and Sisera has fled to her tent believing he is safe. The narrator tells the killing plainly and without comment.

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