1 Samuel 6:9

9 Then watch: If it goes up the road to its homeland toward Beth-shemesh,[a] 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 us-it was just something that happened to us by chance."

1 Samuel 6:9 In-Context

7 "Now then, prepare one new cart and two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
8 Take the ark of the Lord, place it on the cart, and put the gold objects in a box beside it, which you're sending Him as a guilt offering. Send it off and let it go its way.
9 Then watch: If it goes up the road to its homeland toward Beth-shemesh, 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 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.
11 Then they put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the box [containing] the gold mice and the images of the tumors.

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