1 Samuel 6:7-12
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[7] Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cattle, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cattle to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; [8] and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side of it; and send it away, that it may go. [9] Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us." [10] The men did so, and took two milk cattle, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home; [11] and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors. [12] The cattle took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
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1 Samuel 6:7-12 mentions Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beth-shemesh, Ekron, Gath, Gaza and Kiriath-jearim.
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