Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said. The genealogical descent of Caleb is traced in 1 Chronicles 4:13; 1 Chronicles 4:15. 'He was not strictly an Israelite at all, and the designation, "the Kenezite," imports as much. His father, Jephunneh, and his grandfather or ancestor, Kenaz, belonged to some tribe, probably Idumea, friendly to the Israelites, and may be compared to Jethro and to the Kenites' (see the note at Joshua 15:13, and 1 Chronicles 11:8) (Lord A. Hervey, 'Genealogy,' p. 30).