Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Tent. Such nails were used to fasten down the skins, of which the tent was composed. Calmet.—This resembled a stake, though Josephus says it was made of iron. Menochius.—And died. Thus he met a more ignoble fate, which would be more hateful to a warrior. Abimelech ordered his armour-bearer to kill him, that it might not be said that he had fallen by the hand of a woman. Calmet. 9:54. Extreme fatigue, and the will of Providence, caused Sisara to fall asleep so soon. How many, like him, like down in health, and rise no more! Bible.