1 Samuel 6:7-9

Amplified Bible

⁷ Now then, make a new cart and prepare two ^[a]milk cows on which a yoke has never been placed; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves back home, away from them. ⁸ Then take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart; and put the articles of gold which you are returning to Him as a guilt offering in a box beside it. Then send it away [without a driver]. ⁹ But watch, ^[b]if it goes up by the way of its own territory to ^[c]Beth-shemesh, then [you will know that] He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; this disaster happened to us by chance.”