Jael in the Bible

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Jael in the Bible

Person Old Testament Female

At a glance

  • Name: Jael
  • Classification: Person
  • Gender: Female
  • Testament: Old Testament
  • Verse mentions: 6
  • Books: 1
  • Chapters: 2

Description

Woman who killed Sisera, commander of the Canaanite army, with a tent peg, mentioned in Judges.

KJV Bible references

Judges 4:17

Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Judges 4:18

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

Judges 4:21

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took a 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.

Judges 4:22

And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent , behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

Judges 5:6

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked through byways.

Judges 5:24

Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

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