There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD.
The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
The king called the Gibeonites and said to 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 to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);