²⁰ “Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone in there?’ say ‘No.’”

²¹ But Jael,^(A) Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep,^(B) exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.^(C)

²² Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael^(D) went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.^(E)