1 Samuel 6:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ Take the Ark of the Lord, put it on the cart, and put the gold objects that you are returning to him as a guilt offering in a box beside it. Then send it away and let it go. ⁹ Keep watching it. If it goes up along the road to its own territory to Beth-shemesh, it’s the Lord^[a] who has done this great evil to us. But if it does not, then we will know that he wasn’t pressuring us. It happened to us as a natural event.”

¹⁰ The men did this. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves in the house.