Hakim-hakim 4:18

4:18 Jael came out to welcome Sisera. She said to him, “Stop and rest, ¹  my lord. Stop and rest with me. Don’t be afraid.” So Sisera ²  stopped to rest in her tent, and she put a blanket over him.

Hakim-hakim 4:21-22

4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ³  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ⁴  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ⁵  and he died. 4:22 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, ⁶  and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead ⁷  with the tent peg in his temple.

Hakim-hakim 5:6

5:6 In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,

in the days of Jael caravans ⁸  disappeared; ⁹ 

travelers ¹⁰  had to go on winding side roads.

Hakim-hakim 5:24

5:24 The most rewarded ¹¹  of women should be Jael,

the wife of Heber the Kenite!

She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

[4:18]  ¹ tn Heb “Turn aside” (also a second time later in this verse).

[4:18]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:21]  ³ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

[4:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

[4:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and exhausted.” Another option is to understand this as a reference to the result of the fatal blow. In this case, the phrase could be translated, “and he breathed his last.”

[4:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “he went to her.”

[4:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “fallen, dead.”

[5:6]  ⁸ tc The translation assumes the form אֳרְחוֹת (’orÿkhot, “caravans”) rather than אֳרָחוֹת (’orakhot, “roadways”) because it makes a tighter parallel with “travelers” in the next line.

[5:6]  ⁹ tn Or “ceased.”

[5:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Ones walking on paths.”

[5:24]  ¹¹ tn Or “blessed.”