Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. (Judges 4:21)
It's not the first gruesome incident that I've encountered ever since I started Judges. I literally grimaced lah!
I was reminded of a comment made by a brother before about the degeneration of the people's state in the period of Judges. It's scary to see people just doing what they feel like, without any considerations of other morals. (However, I guess this act in Judges 4:21 was according to the will of God..)
It's frightening how one's spiritual life can deteriorate to such a state, when one is without the intervening hands of God in his life.
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