Judges 5:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sisera a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition She put her [left] hand to the tent pin, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer. And with the wooden hammer she smote Sisera, she smote his head, yes, she struck and pierced his temple. American Standard Version (1901) She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples. Common English Bible She reached out her hand for the stake, her strong hand for the worker’s hammer. She struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his skull. Catholic Public Domain Version She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's mallet. And she struck Sisera, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing his temples. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer: and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples. |
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground, as he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
He asked water and she gave him milk, she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.
He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.