1 Samuel 6:8-10

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁸ Take the ark of the Lord, place it on the cart, and put the gold objects that you’re sending Him as a restitution offering in a box^(A) beside the ark.^(B) Send it off and let it go its way. ⁹ Then watch: If it goes up the road to its homeland toward Beth-shemesh,^(C) it is the Lord who has made this terrible trouble for us. However, if it doesn’t, we will know that it was not His hand that punished^(D) us—it was just something that happened to us by chance.”

¹⁰ The men did this: They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and confined their calves in the pen.