Judges 5:26

Her hand, to the tent-pin, put she forth, and, her right hand, to the toilers’ mallet,—Then smote she Sisera, She shattered his head, Yea she split open and pierced through his temples:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

25Water, he asked, Milk, she gave,—In a bowl for nobles, presented cream:

27Between her feet, he bowed—he fell, he lay,—Between her feet, he bowed—he fell, Where he bowed, There, he fell—destroyed!

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Cross References

Judges 4:21Then took Jael, wife of Heber, the tent-pin, and put the mallet in her hand, and went in unto him, softly, and smote the tent-pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground,—he being fast asleep and shrouded in darkness, and he died.

2 Samuel 20:22So the woman came unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it out unto Joab. And he blew with a horn, and they dispersed themselves from the city, every man to his home; but, Joab, returned to Jerusalem unto 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 →

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