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Judges 4:21

King James Version (KJV)

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Judges 4:21

Verse 21 of 24

Scripture focus

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

Judges 4:21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Judges 4:21

Theological / Devotional

A nail. This was the wooden tent stake by which the cords were fastened to the ground. It must have been with mixed emotions that Jael picked up the sharp stake and the heavy mallet that she was accustomed to use in pitching the tents. As far as we know, she had no personal wrong to avenge, and it is possible that her deed was prompted by the recognition that Sisera was the oppressor of the people of God, with those fortunes her own and those of her family had become identified.

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