Judges 4:21

a tent-pin a wooden peg, used for fastening the ropes, and driven in with the mallet, both of them instruments which Bedouin women are accustomed to use.

and it pierced through and it descended; the verb only again in Judges 1:14; Joshua 15:18, where it means alight, descend from.

for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died The word for swoonedis uncertain. With a slight change, but following the Hebr. accents, AV. reads -for he was in a deep sleep and weary; so he died." This makes smoother grammar. In Judges 5:26-27 Jael murders Sisera while he is standing and drinking out of the bowl. Some have explained the different account given here as due to a misunderstanding of the parallelism of Judges 5:26, as though pegand hammermeant two different implements, seized, the one by her hand, the other by her right hand. But it is more probable that the whole account of Jael's action in ch. 4 is founded on a slightly different tradition, which made Jael murder Sisera in his sleep.