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 4:11

4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away ⁴  from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law. He lived ⁵  near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

Judges 4:21

4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ⁶  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ⁷  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ⁸  and he died.

[5:24]  ¹ tn Or “blessed.”

[4:17]  ² map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[4:17]  ³ tn Heb “for there was peace between.”

[4:11]  ³ tn Or “separated.”

[4:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “pitched his tent.”

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

[4:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

[4:21]  ⁶ 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.”