While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died.

The temple’s construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

The craftsman encourages the metalworker;
the one who flattens with the hammer
supports the one who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good.”
He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.

The ironworker labors over the coals,
shapes the idol with hammers,
and works it with his strong arm.
Also he grows hungry and his strength fails;
he doesn’t drink water and is faint.

He decorates it with silver and gold.
It is fastened with hammer and nails,
so it won’t totter.

How the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and smashed!
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!

Beat your plows into swords
and your pruning knives into spears.
Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”