Kenezite] Caleb is mentioned by Moses many times with this addition, the sonne of Jephunneh, either for distinction sake, (for there was another Caleb, 1 Chron. 2. 18. 42.) or for explication of his pedegree, for which cause his originall is fetched higher from Kenaz who might be one of the Ancestors of Jephunneh, whose father (unlesse there were another Jephunneh, but the Scripture commonly brings him in as a father of Caleb) was Jether, 1 Chron. 7. 38. and as he is called the sonne of Jephunneh, so he is named the brother of Othniel, and Othniel the sonne of Kenaz, Joshua 15:17. Judg. 3. 9. which is not to be understood in the strictest acceptation of the word Brother, as if they had both the same father, because in Scripture constantly the one is called the sonne of Kenaz, the other of Jephunneh; and that when in the same place both of them are spoken of together, as in the afore-cited place of Joshua; and Othniel married Calebs daughter; See the same place of Josh. and therefore they were not brethren by the same father, for albeit before the Law it were not prohibited the uncle to marry his neece, yet by Moses Law it was: See Annot. on Leviticus 18:14. so that rather Othniel is called Calebs younger brother, as his nephew, the sonne of Kenaz his brother, for it is not strange in Scripture to call nephewes cousen germans, or kinsmen brethren.