However 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.
"Sisera is a famous military commander (Judges 4:2-3), and since conquering male heroes generally had their way with women (see Judges 5:30), and since Sisera had violated hospitality customs by entering Jael’s tent, Jael may very well have feared that she was going to be raped. Instead, in what some commentators describe as a reverse rape, it is Sisera who ’gets nailed’ by Jael-literally, by Jael’s use of the hammer and tent peg, and perhaps figuratively as well, a possibility captured by the sexual connotation of the contemporary idiom used above." [Note: McCann, pp. 54-55.] 