Judges 5:24

Sisera, according to the code of the times, on entering Jael's tent, was entitled to protection. Could a prophetess, it has been asked, invoke a blessing on an act of sheer treachery? (cp. Judges 4:17). There may have been extenuating circumstances of which we are ignorant; more probably the v. is simply an utterance of the poet's joy at an act without which the victory would have been imperfect, and might have proved fruitless: see Intro. § 7. Women in the tent] Bedouin women: nomads.

25, 26. These vv. say nothing about Sisera's lying down to sleep, and they suggest that he was killed in the act of drinking (note 'smote off' instead of smote through'): but (see Judges 5:27) this is not absolutely necessary.