Jael

Holy Jael (in Hebrew wild goat, ibex) was the wife of Heber the Kenite. She struck down Sisera, the commander of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor (Judges 4:18; 21:5-6 and 24).

When Sisera fled, after the defeat, near the city of Tabor, Jael went out to meet him, invited him into her tent, covered him with a rug and gave him milk to drink. Then, when he slept soundly from weariness, she drove a tent peg into his temple and showed his body to Barak (Judges 4). Her deed is sealed for ever in the triumphal song of Barak and Deborah (Judges 5).

She is commemorated on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (in the Russian calendar on 27 December, a movable day).