Judges 4:17-21 ▼

17 Now Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for [there was] peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, |Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid.| And he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

19 He said to her, |Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.| So she opened a bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him.

20 He said to her, |Stand in the doorway of the tent, and it shall be if anyone comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there anyone here?' that you shall say, 'No.'|

21 But Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.