7 Bible Verses about Not going home directly

We will not return to our homes until every one of the [other] sons of Israel has taken possession of his inheritance.

until the Lord gives rest to your fellow countrymen as [He has] to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God has given them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the land (possession) which I have given to you.’

But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s palace with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not [just] come from a [long] journey? Why did you not go to your house?”

For I was commanded by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall not eat bread or drink water, nor shall you return by the way you came.’” So he went another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.

And having been warned [by God] in a dream not to go back to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.

Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his coat.