²⁰ And he said to her, “Stand at the doorway of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, and says, ‘Is there anyone here?’ You must answer, ‘No.’” ²¹ But Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, took in her hand a tent peg and a hammer, and she went softly^[a] to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; he was fast asleep since he was exhausted, and he died. ²² And behold, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him, and she said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” And he came with her and saw that Sisera was lying dead with the peg in his temple.