Jael

Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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…