Like Shamgar, Jael “improvised a weapon from a domestic implement. Like Shamgar, Jael is a non-Israelite. Shamgar, if a Canaanite, was a member of Israel’s archenemies. Likewise, Jael is a member of a Kenite splinter group, which is at peace
with Jabin, the king of Canaan, Israel’s archenemy Judges 4:11, Judges 4:17)!"1
22 And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.