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She struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/judges/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Then with her left hand she reached for a tent peg, and with her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera with the hammer, crushing his head. With a shattering blow, she pierced his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/judges/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/judges/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/judges/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/judges/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />She stretched her hand to the tent peg, Her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; She pounded Sisera, she pierced his head, She split and struck through his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/judges/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“She reached out her hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head; And she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/judges/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220She reached out her hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen&#8217s hammer. Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head; And she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/judges/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“She reached out her hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head; And she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/judges/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />She sent forth her hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. Then she beat Sisera; she smashed his head, And she crushed and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/judges/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“She reached out her [left] hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head; And she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/judges/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />She reached for a tent peg, her right hand, for a workman’s hammer. Then she hammered Sisera — she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/judges/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />She reached for a tent peg, her right hand, for a workman&#8217s mallet. Then she hammered Sisera— she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/judges/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/judges/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />She reached for a tent-peg and held a hammer in her right hand. And with a blow to the head, she crushed his skull. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/judges/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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 through his head, yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/judges/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />She reached for a tent peg with one hand, for a workman's hammer with the other. She struck Sisera. She crushed his head. She shattered and pierced his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/judges/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />She took a tent peg in one hand, a worker's hammer in the other; she struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she pierced him through the head. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/judges/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />She reached out one hand for the tent peg, and her other for the workman's mallet. Then she struck Sisera, smashing his head, shattering and piercing his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/judges/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman?s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/judges/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Her left hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workmen's hammer. She "hammered" Sisera, she shattered his skull, she smashed his head, she drove the tent peg through his temple. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/judges/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer. She struck Sisera, she pierced his head; she shattered and struck through his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/judges/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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 struck through his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/judges/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/judges/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />She sends forth her hand to the pin, "" And her right hand to the laborers’ hammer, "" And she hammered Sisera—she struck his head, "" Indeed, she struck, and it passed through his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/judges/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Her hand to the pin she sendeth forth, And her right hand to the labourers' hammer, And she hammered Sisera -- she smote his head, Yea, she smote, and it passed through his temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/judges/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Her hand to the peg will she stretch forth, And her right hand to the hammer of labor, And she struck Sisera; she smote through his head, And she crushed and pierced through his temples.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/judges/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/judges/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman’s mallet. And she struck Sisera, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/judges/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />With her hand she reached for the peg, with her right hand, the workman’s hammer. She hammered Sisera, crushed his head; she smashed, pierced his temple. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/judges/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/judges/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />She put her hand to the peg and her right hand to the carpenter's hammer, and with the hammer she struck Sisera and crushed his head, when she had struck and pierced his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/judges/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />She stretched out her hand for a tent peg and her right to the hammer of a carpenter, and she struck Sisra and she shattered his head. She went down and she drove through his temples<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/judges/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Her hand she put to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head, Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/judges/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, and her right to the hand workman's hammer, and she smote Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and smote him; she nailed through his temples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/judges/5-26.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AjzBiIYY2Dc?start=1406" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/judges/5.htm">The Song of Deborah and Barak</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">25</span>He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds. <span class="reftext">26</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: tiš·laḥ·nāh (V-Qal-Imperf-3fp) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">She reached</a> <a href="/hebrew/3489.htm" title="3489: lay·yā·ṯêḏ (Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- A peg, pin. From an unused root meaning to pin through or fast; a peg.">for the tent peg,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3225.htm" title="3225: wî·mî·nāh (Conj-w:: N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Right hand. From yaman; the right hand or side of a person or other object; locally, the south.">her right</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏāh (N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">hand</a> <a href="/hebrew/6001.htm" title="6001: ‘ă·mê·lîm (N-mp) -- Toiling, a laborer, sorrowful. From amal; toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful.">for the workman’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/1989.htm" title="1989: lə·hal·mūṯ (Prep-l:: N-fsc) -- A hammer, mallet. From halam; a hammer.">hammer.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1986.htm" title="1986: wə·hā·lə·māh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To smite, hammer, strike down. A primitive root; to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband.">She struck</a> <a href="/hebrew/5516.htm" title="5516: sî·sə·rā (N-proper-ms) -- Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim.">Sisera</a> <a href="/hebrew/4277.htm" title="4277: mā·ḥă·qāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To utterly destroy, annihilate. A primitive root; to crush.">and crushed</a> <a href="/hebrew/7218.htm" title="7218: rō·šōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Head. From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head, whether literal or figurative.">his skull;</a> <a href="/hebrew/4272.htm" title="4272: ū·mā·ḥă·ṣāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- A primitive root; to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy.">she shattered</a> <a href="/hebrew/2498.htm" title="2498: wə·ḥā·lə·p̄āh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To pass on or away, pass through. A primitive root; properly, to slide by, i.e. to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change.">and pierced</a> <a href="/hebrew/7541.htm" title="7541: raq·qā·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- The temple (part of the head). Feminine of raq; properly, thinness, i.e. The side of the head.">his temple.</a> </span><span class="reftext">27</span>At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Judges 4:21</a></span><br />But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/17-49.htm">1 Samuel 17:49-51</a></span><br />Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground. / Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. / David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/20-22.htm">2 Samuel 20:22</a></span><br />Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/31-19.htm">Proverbs 31:19</a></span><br />She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/41-15.htm">Isaiah 41:15</a></span><br />Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-15.htm">Jeremiah 50:15</a></span><br />Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/habakkuk/3-14.htm">Habakkuk 3:14</a></span><br />With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/144-1.htm">Psalm 144:1</a></span><br />Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/149-6.htm">Psalm 149:6-9</a></span><br />May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands, / to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, / to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/9-24.htm">2 Kings 9:24</a></span><br />Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/26-52.htm">Matthew 26:52</a></span><br />“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/1-51.htm">Luke 1:51-52</a></span><br />He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts. / He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-32.htm">Hebrews 11:32-34</a></span><br />And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, / who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, / quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-15.htm">Revelation 19:15</a></span><br />And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/6-17.htm">Ephesians 6:17</a></span><br />And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">with the.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/17-49.htm">1 Samuel 17:49-51</a></b></br> And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang <i>it</i>, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/20-22.htm">2 Samuel 20:22</a></b></br> Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast <i>it</i> out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/joshua/6-9.htm">Blow</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-16.htm">Brow</a> <a href="/judges/2-18.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/26-7.htm">Crushing</a> <a href="/judges/2-23.htm">Driving</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Hammer</a> <a href="/judges/5-14.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/judges/4-7.htm">Head</a> <a href="/judges/4-22.htm">Nail</a> <a href="/judges/4-22.htm">Peg</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Pierced</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Pin</a> <a href="/judges/3-21.htm">Reached</a> <a href="/judges/4-18.htm">Right</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/10-2.htm">Shattered</a> <a href="/judges/5-20.htm">Sisera</a> <a href="/judges/5-20.htm">Sis'era</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-17.htm">Smashed</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Smote</a> <a href="/joshua/23-2.htm">Stricken</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/genesis/38-22.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/judges/4-22.htm">Temples</a> <a href="/judges/5-24.htm">Tent</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Tent-Pin</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-39.htm">Wounding</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/judges/7-18.htm">Blow</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-49.htm">Brow</a> <a href="/judges/6-11.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/judges/6-11.htm">Crushing</a> <a href="/judges/15-8.htm">Driving</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-7.htm">Hammer</a> <a href="/judges/6-1.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/judges/8-28.htm">Head</a> <a href="/ezra/9-8.htm">Nail</a> <a href="/ezra/9-8.htm">Peg</a> <a href="/judges/9-54.htm">Pierced</a> <a href="/judges/16-13.htm">Pin</a> <a href="/judges/6-21.htm">Reached</a> <a href="/judges/7-20.htm">Right</a> <a href="/judges/10-8.htm">Shattered</a> <a href="/judges/5-28.htm">Sisera</a> <a href="/judges/5-28.htm">Sis'era</a> <a href="/judges/7-20.htm">Smashed</a> <a href="/judges/7-13.htm">Smote</a> <a href="/judges/20-41.htm">Stricken</a> <a href="/judges/7-13.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/judges/9-4.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/songs/4-3.htm">Temples</a> <a href="/judges/7-8.htm">Tent</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Tent-Pin</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-50.htm">Wounding</a><div class="vheading2">Judges 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/judges/5-1.htm">The Song of Deborah and Barak</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/judges/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/judges/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/judges/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>She reached for the tent peg</b><br>In ancient nomadic cultures, women were often responsible for setting up and taking down tents, making them familiar with tent pegs. This detail highlights Jael's resourcefulness and courage. The tent peg symbolizes an unexpected tool of deliverance, reminiscent of how God often uses the humble and unexpected to achieve His purposes, as seen in <a href="/1_corinthians/1-27.htm">1 Corinthians 1:27</a>.<p><b>her right hand for the workman’s hammer</b><br>The right hand is often associated with strength and skill in biblical literature. The use of a workman’s hammer, a common tool, emphasizes Jael's practical approach to fulfilling God's plan. This act can be seen as a parallel to David using a sling to defeat Goliath, where God uses ordinary means to accomplish extraordinary victories (<a href="/1_samuel/17-49.htm">1 Samuel 17:49</a>).<p><b>She struck Sisera and crushed his skull</b><br>This phrase underscores the decisive and lethal action taken by Jael. Crushing the skull is a vivid depiction of total defeat, echoing the prophecy in <a href="/genesis/3-15.htm">Genesis 3:15</a> about the seed of the woman crushing the serpent's head, symbolizing ultimate victory over evil. Jael's act is a fulfillment of Deborah's prophecy in <a href="/judges/4-9.htm">Judges 4:9</a> that a woman would defeat Sisera.<p><b>she shattered and pierced his temple</b><br>The temple is a vulnerable part of the human body, and this detail highlights the precision and effectiveness of Jael's action. The shattering and piercing signify a complete and irreversible defeat. This act of deliverance is a type of Christ's ultimate victory over sin and death, where He decisively defeats the powers of darkness (<a href="/colossians/2-15.htm">Colossians 2:15</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jael.htm">Jael</a></b><br>The wife of Heber the Kenite, who played a crucial role in the defeat of Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite army. Her actions are celebrated in the Song of Deborah.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/s/sisera.htm">Sisera</a></b><br>The commander of the Canaanite army under King Jabin of Hazor. He was defeated by the Israelites and killed by Jael.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/d/deborah.htm">Deborah</a></b><br>A prophetess and judge of Israel who, along with Barak, led Israel to victory over the Canaanites. Her song in <a href="/bsb/judges/5.htm">Judges 5</a> celebrates this victory.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/barak.htm">Barak</a></b><br>The military leader who, under Deborah's guidance, led the Israelite army against Sisera.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_tent.htm">The Tent</a></b><br>The setting for Sisera's death, symbolizing a place of refuge that turned into a place of judgment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/c/courage_in_unexpected_places.htm">Courage in Unexpected Places</a></b><br>Jael's actions remind us that God can use anyone, regardless of their status or gender, to fulfill His purposes. We should be open to God's calling, even if it seems unconventional.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_justice.htm">Divine Justice</a></b><br>The account of Jael and Sisera illustrates that God's justice may come in unexpected ways. We should trust in God's timing and methods, even when they differ from our expectations.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_obedience.htm">The Power of Obedience</a></b><br>Jael's decisive action demonstrates the importance of obedience to God's will. We should be ready to act when God calls us, trusting in His guidance and strength.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_women_in_god's_plan.htm">The Role of Women in God's Plan</a></b><br>Jael's account highlights the significant role women can play in God's redemptive history. We should recognize and support the contributions of women in ministry and leadership.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_judges_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Judges 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_was_sisera_in_the_bible.htm">Who was Sisera in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/are_there_sources_supporting_jael's_act.htm">Judges 4:21 tells of Jael killing Sisera with a tent peg--are there archaeological or extra-biblical sources supporting the historicity of this event?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_jael's_act_historical_or_symbolic.htm">Judges 5:24-27: Is Jael's method of killing Sisera a credible historical report, or is it exaggerated symbolism?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_judges_4_9_a_later_editorial_addition.htm">Judges 4:9 features a prophecy about Sisera's defeat by a woman--could this be a later editorial addition that conflicts with the main story?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(26) <span class= "bld">Nail. . . . workmen's hammer.</span>--See on <a href="/judges/4-21.htm" title="Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.">Judges 4:21</a>.<p><span class= "bld">Smote.</span>--<span class= "ital">Hammered.</span><p><span class= "bld">Smote off his head.</span>--Rather, <span class= "ital">shattered his head. </span>The Hebrew is onomatopoetic, i.e., the sound echoes the sense, recalling the smashing and crashing blows of the hammer. The repetition of these terrible alliterative verbs, "hammered," "shattered," "battered," "transfixed," the signs that the imagination of the prophetess seems to revel in the description, have been ascribed to "the delight of a satisfied thirst for revenge." This is hardly a right view of her character. It must be remembered that the feelings of modern times are far more refined and complex than those of previous ages. The sense of tenderness, the quickness of compassion, the value set on human life, are immeasurably increased, and with them the power of realising by universal sympathy the position and sufferings of others. In ancient days no close moral analysis was applied to acts of which the general tendency was approved as right and beneficial. Caesar was not inherently a cruel man, yet he records without a shudder the massacre and misery of multitudes of Gaulish men, women, and children at Alesia; and he suffered the brave Vercingetorix to be led away from his triumph, to be strangled in the Tullianum, without the slightest qualm of pity. Deborah, in the spirit of her day, seems to regard with pitiless exultation the wild throes of Sisera's death, and the agonising frustration of his mother's hopes. only because she views those events in the single aspect of the deliverance of Israel. The tenderness of the Mother of Israel was absorbed in the thought of her own long-afflicted, but now rescued, race. "She was a mother in Israel, and with the vehemency of a mother's and a patriot's <span class= "ital">love, </span>she had shot the light of love from her eyes, and poured the blessings of love from her lips on the people that had jeopardised their lives unto the death against the oppressors, and the bitterness awakened and borne aloft by the same love she precipitates in curses on the selfish and cowardly recreants who came not to the help of the Lord against the unjust" (Coleridge); and we may add, on all connected with the cruel oppressor.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 26.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">With the hammer</span>. These words are not in the Hebrew, and should be omitted. She smote (not smote off), <span class="accented">yea</span>, <span class="accented">she wounded</span> (<a href="/psalms/68-21.htm">Psalm 68:21</a>); <span class="accented">she pierced through his temples.</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/judges/5-26.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">She reached</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּשְׁלַ֔חְנָה</span> <span class="translit">(tiš·laḥ·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> </span><span class="str2">To send away, for, out</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for the tent peg,</span><br /><span class="heb">לַיָּתֵ֣ד</span> <span class="translit">(lay·yā·ṯêḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3489.htm">Strong's 3489: </a> </span><span class="str2">A peg, pin</span><br /><br /><span class="word">her right</span><br /><span class="heb">וִֽימִינָ֖הּ</span> <span class="translit">(wî·mî·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3225.htm">Strong's 3225: </a> </span><span class="str2">The right hand, side, the south</span><br /><br /><span class="word">hand</span><br /><span class="heb">יָדָהּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḏāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for the workman's</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲמֵלִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·mê·lîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6001.htm">Strong's 6001: </a> </span><span class="str2">Toiling, a laborer, sorrowful</span><br /><br /><span class="word">hammer.</span><br /><span class="heb">לְהַלְמ֣וּת</span> <span class="translit">(lə·hal·mūṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1989.htm">Strong's 1989: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hammer, mallet</span><br /><br /><span class="word">She struck</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהָלְמָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hā·lə·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1986.htm">Strong's 1986: </a> </span><span class="str2">To strike down, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Sisera</span><br /><span class="heb">סִֽיסְרָא֙</span> <span class="translit">(sî·sə·rā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5516.htm">Strong's 5516: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sisera -- a general of the king of Hazor, also the father of some returning exiles</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and crushed</span><br /><span class="heb">מָחֲקָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(mā·ḥă·qāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4277.htm">Strong's 4277: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utterly destroy, annihilate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">his skull;</span><br /><span class="heb">רֹאשׁ֔וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(rō·šōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7218.htm">Strong's 7218: </a> </span><span class="str2">The head</span><br /><br /><span class="word">she shattered</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמָחֲצָ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(ū·mā·ḥă·ṣāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4272.htm">Strong's 4272: </a> </span><span class="str2">To dash asunder, to crush, smash, violently plunge, to subdue, destroy</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and pierced</span><br /><span class="heb">וְחָלְפָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḥā·lə·p̄āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2498.htm">Strong's 2498: </a> </span><span class="str2">To slide by, to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce, change</span><br /><br /><span class="word">his temple.</span><br /><span class="heb">רַקָּתֽוֹ׃</span> <span class="translit">(raq·qā·ṯōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7541.htm">Strong's 7541: </a> </span><span class="str2">Thinness, the side of the head</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/judges/5-26.htm">OT History: Judges 5:26 She put her hand to the tent (Jd Judg. 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