When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.
"Seeing the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt"  (1 Samuel 25:26). These words were an assertion by Abigail that David's projected murder of Nabal and his household was a violation of God's law; and, in context, they were a reproof of David's intentions.  Concerning those intentions, our abbreviated account does not tell us how Nabal's young men knew that evil was determined against Nabal and his house  (1 Samuel 25:17), nor how Abigail was certainly aware of it here.  Abigail's skillful warning here had the desired effect.