1 Samuel 6:7-12

7Now therefore, take and 1prepare a new cart and two milch cows on which there 2has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves home, away from them. 8Take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart; and put 3the articles of gold which you return to Him as 4a guilt offering in a box by its side. Then send it away that it may go. 9Watch, if it goes up by the way of its own territory to 5Beth-shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then 6we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”

10Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. 11They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the likenesses of their tumors. 12And the cows took the straight way in the 7direction of 8Beth-shemesh; they went along 9the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh.