“Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.”
But Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and a hammer, and went softly to him and drove the peg through his temple, so that it pierced the ground; he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. — Jael's assassination of Sisera ('took a tent peg and a hammer, and went softly to him') employs implements at hand to deliver a fatal blow. The detail 'drove the peg through his temple, so that it pierced the ground' emphasizes complete penetration and death. The note 'he was fast asleep and weary' indicates that he fell into the drowsy sleep that the milk produced, making him vulnerable.
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