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Jael |
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Jael (jāl), in the Bible, heroine of the time of Deborah. She murdered Sisera, her guest. Jael drove tent-peg through skull of Sisera. [O.T.: Judges 4:19–21] See : Brutality |
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The weary soldier acceded readily enough, and Jael put him to bed. Three nails driven into the head commemorated as many crises in Maggie's nine years of earthly struggle; that luxury of vengeance having been suggested to her by the picture of Jael destroying Sisera in the old Bible. When I looked at him that night, deep in his drunken sleep, I thought of Jael and Sisera (see the book of Judges; chapter 4th; verses 17 to 21). |
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