²¹ Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took [1] an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

²¹ But Jael , Heber's wife , took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand , and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple , and it went through into the ground ; for he was sound asleep and exhausted . So he died .