Sisera, commander of the Canaanite army defeated by the Israelites, lies dead in his tent after Jael hammered a spike into his head as he slept. Jael shows Barak, commader of the victorius Israelites, what she has done. The story is told in the Old Testament, in Judges 4 - 5. After an 18th century engraving by Jan Lamsvelt.

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