Judges 5:26
Good News Translation
She took a tent peg in one hand, a worker's hammer in the other; she struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she pierced him through the head.

New Revised Standard Version
She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

Contemporary English Version
She reached for a tent-peg and held a hammer in her right hand. And with a blow to the head, she crushed his skull.

New American Bible
With her hand she reached for the peg, with her right hand, the workman’s hammer. She hammered Sisera, crushed his head; she smashed, pierced his temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.

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1 Samuel 17:49-51 And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth. . . .

2 Samuel 20:22 So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Context
The Song of Deborah and Barak
25He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes. 26She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.27Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.…
Cross References
Judges 4:21
So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.

Judges 5:25
He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.

Judges 5:27
Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.

Judges 5:25
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