Judges 4:21

Jdg 4:21 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.

Ver. 21. Took a nail of the tent. ] Which was long and strong enough for her purpose to pierce his skull, and to fasten him to the ground.

And smote the nail into his temples. ] Lo, there lay this proud worms’ meat sprawling, with his head fastened to the ground, as if it had been now listening what was become of the soul. In Ezekiel 32:27 , it is said, that such as cause terror in the land of the living, are tumbled together into hell.

For he was fast asleep and weary. ] Fright, and flight, and grief, and perhaps long watching, had cast him into a deep sleep: which made way to that somnus ferreus, as the poets call death.