1 Samuel 4:10 uses the exact phrase 'defeated... and every man fled to his home'—a formula for military disaster.

2 Samuel 18:17 ends with 'all Israel fled every one to his own home'—the same idiom for total rout.

2 Samuel 19:8 notes that 'Israel had fled every man to his own home' after Absalom's defeat—same idiom.

1 Kings 22:36 commands 'every man to his city' after Ahab's death—another scene of dispersal after defeat.