1 Samuel 6:7-12

1 Samuel 6:7-12

[7] Now therefore make  new  cart,  and take  two  milch  kine,  on which there hath come  no yoke,  and tie  the kine  to the cart,  and bring  their calves  home  from them:  [8] And take  the ark  of the LORD,  and lay  it upon the cart;  and put  the jewels  of gold,  which ye return  him for a trespass offering,  in a coffer  by the side  thereof; and send it away,  that it may go.  [9] 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.  [10] did so;  and took  two  milch  kine,  and tied  them to the cart,  and shut up  their calves  at home:  [11] And they laid  the ark  of the LORD  upon the cart,  and the coffer  with the mice  of gold  and the images  of their emerods.  [12] And the kine  took the straight  way  of Bethshemesh,  and went along  the highway,  lowing  as they went,  and turned not aside  to the right hand  or to the left;  and the lords  of the Philistines  went  after  them unto the border  of Bethshemesh.