{"id":16818,"date":"2023-05-27T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=16818"},"modified":"2023-05-27T14:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T18:01:48","slug":"joshua-1516-17-why-does-caleb-give-his-daughter-to-marry-his-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/joshua-1516-17-why-does-caleb-give-his-daughter-to-marry-his-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua 15:16-17 &#8211; Why does Caleb give his daughter to marry his brother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Caleb said, \u201cThe one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife\u201d (Josh. 15:16). But then his brother Othniel volunteers to do capture Kiriath-sepher and succeeds. Thus we read, \u201cOthniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife\u201d (Josh. 15:17). Why does Caleb allow for incest of this magnitude?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Solution:<\/strong> The Bible doesn\u2019t condone everything that it contains. Even if an incestuous marriage did take place because of Caleb, this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that God approved of it. In fact, the Levitical law disapproves of incestuous relationships (Lev. 18:6-7; 1 Cor. 5:1).<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems likely that Othniel and Caleb were not blood brothers. Othniel is called \u201cthe son of Kenaz\u201d (Josh. 15:17; Judg. 1:13; 3:9), while Caleb is called \u201cthe son of Jephunneh\u201d (Josh. 14:6, 13-14, 15:13; 21:12). Madvig writes, \u201c\u2018Caleb\u2019s brother\u2019 may have been his blood brother or a member of the same clan or tribe. The Hebrew word \u02be\u0101\u1e25 can mean \u2018brother,\u2019 \u2018relative,\u2019 or \u2018ally.\u2019\u201d[1]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[1] Madvig notes that Judges 1:13 calls Othniel Caleb\u2019s \u201cyounger brother\u201d (c.f. Judg. 3:9), but given that their father\u2019s names were explicitly mentioned, this most likely refers to a younger relative. Madvig, Donald. Joshua. In F. E. Gaebelein (Ed.), The Expositor\u2019s Bible Commentary, Volume 3: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 &amp; 2 Samuel (F. E. Gaebelein, Ed.). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House. 199(2) 328.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Caleb said, \u201cThe one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife\u201d (Josh. 15:16). But then his brother Othniel volunteers to do capture Kiriath-sepher and succeeds. Thus we read, \u201cOthniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah hisContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}