David prophesies the punishment that will fall upon him, stating "the sword shall never depart from your house." When David acknowledges that he has sinned, Nathan advises him that his sin is forgiven and he will not die, but the child will. In fulfillment of Nathan's words, David's son Absalom, fueled by vengeance and lust for power, rebels. Absalom's forces are routed at the battle of the Wood of Ephraim, and he is caught by his long hair in the branches of a tree where, contrary to David's order, he is killed by Joab, the commander of David's army. David laments
His Name Was King smuggling activities, which in fact is Foster. Collins also assists King in the final reckoning with the sheriff. In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund writes that "His Name Was King" is an example of vengeance stories with an "external second motive", where there besides the avenger is a second protagonist with a different motive. This is a variant of the partnership plot that was used in many Spaghetti Westerns following the success of "For a Few Dollars More" where one of the bounty killer partners turns out to have a secret vengeance motive. In "His