7 Bible Verses about Not going home directly

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you."

But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

So they informed David, "Uriah has not gone down to his house." So David said to Uriah, "Haven't you just arrived from a journey? Why haven't you gone down to your house?"

For the Lord gave me strict orders, 'Do not eat or drink there and do not go home the way you came.'" So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.

and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.