Judges 4:21
 Judges 4:21 
New International Version (© 2011)
But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.

King James Bible
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.

American Standard Version
Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jael wife of Heber taketh the pin of the tent, and taketh the hammer in her hand, and goeth unto him gently, and striketh the pin into his temples, and it fasteneth in the earth -- and he hath been fast asleep, and is weary -- and he dieth.

Judges 4:21 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A nail of the tent - One of the spikes by which they fasten to the ground the cords which are attached to the cloth or covering.

He was fast asleep and weary - As he lay on one side, and was overwhelmed with sleep through the heat and fatigues of the day, the piercing of his temples must have in a moment put him past resistance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

took

Judges 3:21,31 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly...

Judges 5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head...

Judges 15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

1 Samuel 17:43,49,50 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods...

1 Corinthians 1:19,27 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent...

a nail. One of the spikes of the tent.

Exodus 35:18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,

and took. Heb. and put. smote

Psalm 3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

he died

Judges 5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

Judges 4:21 Parallel Commentaries
Asleep Deep Died Hammer Hand Jael Nail Peg Pierced Pin Seized Sleep Smote Softly Struck Swooned Temples Tent Tent-Pin Weary Wife
Asleep Deep Died Hammer Hand Jael Nail Peg Pierced Pin Seized Sleep Smote Softly Struck Swooned Temples Tent Tent-Pin Weary Wife
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Judges 4:9 "Certainly I will go with you," said Deborah. "But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman." So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges 4:20 "Stand in the doorway of the tent," he told her. "If someone comes by and asks you, 'Is anyone in there?' say 'No.'"
Judges 4:22 Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. "Come," she said, "I will show you the man you're looking for." So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple--dead.
Judges 5:26 Her hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman's hammer. She struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.