--- title: "Jael Kills Sisera" description: "Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the..." image: "" book: "Judges" bookId: "JDG" testament: "old" startChapter: 4 startVerse: 17 endChapter: 4 endVerse: 23 coversChapters: [4] aiTitle: "Jael Kills Sisera" aiDescription: "Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the..." hasAiStory: true location: "Hazor" persons: ["Barak","God","Heber the Kenite","Israelites","Jabin","Jael","Sisera"] hashtags: ["deliverance","judgment","war"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "JDG/jael-kills-sisera" canonicalId: "JDG.4.17-4.23" chronologicalOrder: 446 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "JDG/barak" nextSlug: "JDG/the-song-of-deborah-and-barak" --- Meanwhile, [Sisera](/persons/sisera) had fled on foot to the tent of [Jael](/persons/jael), the wife of [Heber the Kenite](/persons/heber%20the%20kenite), because there was peace between [Jabin](/persons/jabin) king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my [lord](/persons/god). Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again. “Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’” 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. When [Barak](/persons/barak) arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple. On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the [Israelites](/persons/israelites).

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