Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
"Blessed above women shall Jael be"  (Judges 5:24).  Deborah was an inspired prophetess, and her words here must be construed as a blessing conveyed with God's approval upon the wife of Heber.  Of course this is contrary to what nearly all the commentators write about this, and we agree that Christians cannot, in any sense, agree that Jael's behavior in this episode was moral, yet there must be something here that we do not understand.  Without professing any full agreement with his remarks, we submit this quotation from Strahan: