1 Samuel 6:9-12

9But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

10So the men did as instructed. They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

11They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the chest, the gold mice, and the images of the sores.

12Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.