1. Judges 4:22 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does Jael have in common with Shamgar?

Judges 4:22 (ESV)

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.

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