Hammer in the Bible

Exact Match

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

Her left hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workmen's hammer. She "hammered" Sisera, she shattered his skull, she smashed his head, she drove the tent peg through his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

Thematic Bible



“How the hammer of the whole earth
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?


References

Hastings

Easton

Fausets