What’s Wrong With The Bible? 4/26/08 -Stop! Hammer Time!

Ok, today we’re going to look at one of God’s very special ladies: Jael.  Why is she so special to God?  Let’s see.
Judges 4:17-21:
“17Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

18And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

19And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

20Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.”

That’s right folks, she drove a tent spike through his head!  She hid him, gave him something to drink, let him take a nap and then drove a fucking spike through his head!  This guy who, according to the Bible, was an ally of her husband gets a spike through the head instead of a safe place to hide.  But wait, I think I know the reason.  Let’s look at Judges 4:13:

“13And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.”

There it is!  That’s why God had the wife of an ally kill this guy.  God couldn’t do it.  They had exploited his weakness.  It all makes sense now.

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