Righteous
Righteous Jael, who struck down Sisera
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Righteous Jael — an Old Testament heroine of the era of the Judges, wife of Heber the Kenite, who killed the Canaanite general Sisera by driving a tent peg through his head, thereby delivering Israel from oppression; celebrated in the Song of the Prophetess Deborah as "most blessed among women."
Righteous Jael was the wife of Heber the Kenite — from a clan related to Israel. After the Israelite commander Barak, guided by the prophetess Deborah, defeated the army of Jabin, king of Canaan, the fleeing commander Sisera took refuge in Jael's tent. She gave him milk to drink and covered him; when he, exhausted, fell asleep, Jael drove a tent peg through his temple with a mallet, killing him, and presented the body to Barak.
Her deed is immortalized in the Song of Deborah and Barak (Judges 5:24-31) — one of the oldest texts in the Bible, calling her "most blessed among women."
She is commemorated together with other Old Testament righteous figures on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (a movable feast, the second Sunday before Nativity). Separately, the account of Jael and Sisera is read as an Old Testament lection at Vespers for the feast of Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Princess Olga (July 11/24) — by typological association (a woman triumphant over an enemy), which is a liturgical use of the text rather than Jael's own personal commemoration day.