1 Samuel 6:9

Overview - 1 Samuel 6
1	After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark.
10	They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth-shemesh.
19	The people are smitten for looking into the ark.
21	They send to them of Kirjath-jearim to fetch it.

1 Samuel 6:9  (King James Version)
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.