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Gibeonites

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Gibeonites
consigned to servitude in retribution for trickery. [O.T.: Joshua 9:22–27]

Gibeonites
obtained treaty with Joshua under false pretenses. [O.T.: Joshua 9:3–15]
See : Trickery


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We are told that David also had put seven men to death in order to appease the Gibeonites so the famine would end (2 Sam 21:1-14).
To be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" was Joshua's curse on the Gibeonites (Joshua 9:23-27).
And should one argue this only happens to individuals, what about the Gibeonites (Joshua 9)?
 
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