The men of Nineveh
Again the rejected King announces judgment.
Compare (Matthew 11:20-24).
Israel, in the midst of the Pharisaic revival of outward religious strictness, was like a man out of whom a demon had "gone," that is, of his own volition. He would come back and find an empty house, etc. The personal application is to a mere self-cleansed moralist.
Nineveh
Verses (Jonah 3:5-9); (Luke 11:32).
( See Scofield) - (Nahum 1:1).