New Revised Standard Version
But Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, until it went down into the ground—he was lying fast asleep from weariness—and he died.

Contemporary English Version
Sisera was exhausted and soon fell fast asleep. Jael took a hammer and drove a tent-peg through his head into the ground, and he died.

New American Bible
Jael, wife of Heber, got a tent peg and took a mallet in her hand. When Sisera was in a deep sleep from exhaustion, she approached him stealthily and drove the peg through his temple and down into the ground, and he died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.

So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.

took

Judges 3:21,31 And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly, . . .

Judges 5:26 She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.

Judges 15:15 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.

1 Samuel 17:43,49,50 And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:19,27 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject. . . .

a nail.

Exodus 35:18 The pins of the tabernacle, and of the court, with their little cords:

and took.

Psalm 3:7 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

he died

Judges 5:27 Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.