Judges 5:26

She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, 1 And her right hand to the workman’s hammer, 1 And she smote Sisera with it, she nailed through his head and smote him; 1 She nailed through his temples. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

In Context

25He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; 1 She brought butter of princes. 1

27He rolled down between her feet; 1 He fell and lay between her feet; 1 He bowed and fell: 1 Where he bowed, there he fell dead. 1

Read all of Judges 5

Cross References

Judges 4:21And Jael the wife of Heber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.

2 Samuel 20:22And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and they took off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Matthew Henry on Judges 5:25-31

24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 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, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 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. 28 The… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Judges 5:26