The narration in each case has each movement described carefully. As Ehud’s manipulation of Eglon and his courtiers serves to satirize Eglon and his men for their gullibility, so Jael’s manipulation of Sisera by means of verbal ambiguity satirizes him for his gullibility. Ehud thrusts…his sword into Eglon’s belly; Jael drives…her tent peg…into Sisera’s head.
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21 But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.