7 Bible Verses about Not going home directly

We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.

until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they also take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession that I have given you.

But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.

When it was reported to David, “Uriah didn’t go home,” David questioned Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a journey? Why didn’t you go home?”

for this is what I was commanded by the word of the Lord: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or go back the way you came.’” So he went another way; he did not go back by the way he had come to Bethel.

And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

And a man in the field must not go back to get his clothes.