Judges 5:24

5:24 The most rewarded ¹  of women should be Jael,

the wife of Heber the Kenite!

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

Judges 4:17

4:17 Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor ²  and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty. ³ 

Judges 4:21

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

¹ tn Or “blessed.”

² map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

³ tn Heb “for there was peace between.”

³ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

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.”