Judges 5:24

The courageous devotion of Jael is set effectively against the unpatriotic selfishness of Meroz. Jael here receives enthusiastic praise for what strikes us as nothing less than a treacherous murder. According to the standards of the times, however, it would not appear in this light at all, and such are the standards by which we must judge the morality of the deed.

the wife of Heber the Kenite interrupts the parallelism and spoils the rhythm of the verse; it is evidently a gloss from Judges 4:17, where the words are in place.

women in the tent The Bedouin are described as dwellers in tentsJudges 4:11; Judges 8:11; Jeremiah 35:7.