²⁰ He said to her, “Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’” ²¹ Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other.^[a] She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground^[b] while he was asleep from exhaustion,^[c] and he died. ²² Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent,^[d] and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead^[e] with the tent peg through his temple.