Keturah – Wife or Concubine?

By Ahmed Eldin

Bible tells us that Keturah is the third wife of Abraham:

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. (Genesis 25:1)

From this verse, we clearly understand that Keturah is the wife of Abraham. However, the problem is that Keturah in the book of Chronicles 1 is mention as Concubine:

Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.( 1 Chronicles 1:32)

It is weird how the Holy Ghost made this error. Undoubtedly the passages of Genesis 25:1 and Chronicles 1 are contradicting. Therefore, Bible cannot be the Word of God.