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Judges 4:21

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Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.

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  • Was Sisera asleep when he was murdered?

    Judges 4:21 has Jael driving the tent peg through the temple of a Sisera who is 'fast asleep and weary,' nailing him to the ground without him standing or struggling. Judges 5:26-27 in the Song of Deborah has Sisera standing, then sinking, then falling at Jael's feet after being struck.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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