When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.
"No pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause"  (1 Samuel 25:31).  Abigail's wisdom here was surely inspired of God, because, David's shedding the blood of this well known Judahite (Nabal), "Would have started a blood feud among the clans of Judah that would involve men that David would need on his way to the kingship.  David had only Judah to back him in his claim upon the throne."[14]