Judges 4:21-22 King James Version (KJV)

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.

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 4:21-22 The Voice (VOICE)

²¹ Sisera fell into a deep sleep, for he was weary. Jael, the wife of Heber, took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept softly to his side. Then she drove the peg into his temple, down into the ground, and killed him.

²² When Barak came looking for Sisera, Jael went out to meet him.

Jael: Come inside, and I will show you the man you seek.

So he went into the tent with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg driven through his head.

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21 This would happen in times of war people would fall asleep because of being tired and their stress. Pegs were large wooden spikes often times used to hold down tents. The temple is a very important part of the head being hit in the temple can cause a person to be knocked out. This spike was drove thru his temple thru his brain into the ground this would have been a quick a silent death.

22 So again they come out to greet someone it was part of that culture but she was trying to help God’s people. He was dead because he was killed already, this shows how sudden and quiet his death was for no one to know.