The Gibeonites — 2 Samuel 21:1–3

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said,

It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

and David said unto the Gibeonites,