KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Judges 5:26
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
WEB World English Bible
She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Her hand to the pin she sendeth forth, And her right hand to the labourers’ hammer, And she hammered Sisera—she smote his head, Yea, she smote, and it passed through his temple.
Surrounding context — Judges 5
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25 He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26 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.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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יָדָהּ֙H3027 · yadhandלַיָּתֵ֣דH3489 · ya.tedpegתִּשְׁלַ֔חְנָהH7971 · sha.lachto send: departוִֽימִינָ֖הּH3225 · ya.minrightלְהַלְמ֣וּתH1989 · hal.muthammerעֲמֵלִ֑יםH6001 · a.mellabour(er)וְהָלְמָ֤הH1986 · ha.lamto smiteסִֽיסְרָא֙H5516 · sis.raSiseraמָחֲקָ֣הH4277 · ma.chaqto destroyרֹאשׁ֔וֹH7218 · roshheadוּמָחֲצָ֥הH4272 · ma.chatsto woundוְחָלְפָ֖הH2498 · cha.laphto passרַקָּתֽוֹ׃H7541 · raq.qahtemple
Cross-references
1 Samuel 17:49-51And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.Judges 4:21Then 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.2 Samuel 20:22Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast [it] out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
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