Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
"She brought him butter in a lordly dish"  (Judges 5:25).  The parallelism in this with the preceding clause indicates, as Barnes said, that, "This should be rendered `curdled milk,' probably a fermented and intoxicating drink."[37]  The "lordly dish" would have allayed any suspicion that Sisera might have had.