21Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took 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.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 17-24)We have seen the army of the Canaanites totally 3434 routed. It is said ( Ps. 83:9 , 10 , where the defeat of this army is pleaded as a precedent for God’s doing the like in after times) that they became as dung for the earth . Now here we have, I. The fall of their general, Sisera, captain of the host, in whom, it is likely, Jabin their king put an entire confidence, and therefore was not himself...
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