Verse 21

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.

Referenced Verses

• Judg 3:21 : 21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s belly.
• Judg 3:31 : 31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. He killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. So he also delivered Israel.
• Judg 5:26-27 : 26 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. 27 Between her feet he collapsed, he fell limp and was lifeless; between her feet he collapsed and fell, in the spot where he collapsed, there he fell– violently killed!
• Judg 15:15 : 15 He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.
• 1 Sam 17:43 : 43 The Philistine said to David,“Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?” Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
• 1 Sam 17:49-50 : 49 David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground. 50 David prevailed over the Philistine with just the sling and the stone. He struck down the Philistine and killed him. David did not even have a sword in his hand.
• Ps 3:7 : 7 Rise up, LORD! Deliver me, my God! Yes, you will strike all my enemies on the jaw; you will break the teeth of the wicked.
• 1 Cor 1:19 : 19 For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”
• 1 Cor 1:27 : 27 But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.