The one sitting still in this city will die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence; but the one who is going out and who actually falls away to the Chaldeans who are laying siege against you will keep living, and his soul will certainly come to be his as a spoil.”’

Jer. 21:8-10.

30. Why was a Jew’s then ‘falling away to the Chaldeans’ not unpatriotic or traitorous?

³⁰ A Jew’s ‘falling away to the Chaldeans’ who were besieging the kingdom of Judah was not unpatriotic or traitorous. It was the course of obedience to Jehovah God, the invisible heavenly king of Israel. This was “the way of life,” whereas “the way of death” was the disobedient course chosen by the Jewish patriots.