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.
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Interpretation
Sisera's chariots had been his pride and his confidence. Thus are those disappointed who rest on the creature; like a broken reed, it not only breaks under them, but pierces them with many sorrows.
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This thought runs through Judges 4:20-24.
Glossary
- Jael Person
- Mountain-goat, the wife of Heber the Kenite ( Judg. 4:17-22 ).