Lexicon :: Strong's H8251 - šiqqûṣ

Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the soothsayers and the teraphim (household gods) and the idols and all the repulsive things that were seen in Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might fulfill the words of the law written in the book which Hilkiah the priest found in the house (temple) of the LORD.

And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the repulsive idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. Then he restored the altar [of burnt offering] of the LORD which was in front of the porch [of the temple] of the LORD.

“He who kills an ox [for pagan sacrifice] is [as guilty] as one who kills a man;

He who sacrifices a lamb, as one who breaks a dog’s neck;

He who offers a grain offering, as one who offers swine’s blood;

He who offers incense, as one who blesses an idol.

Such people have chosen their own ways,

And their soul delights in their repulsive acts;

“If you will return, O Israel,” says the LORD,

“If you will return to Me,

And if you will put away your detestable things and remove your man-made gods from My sight,

And not stray or waver,

“For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the LORD; “they have set their disgusting and shamefully vile things in the house which is called by My Name, to defile it.

“I have seen your vile and detestable acts,

Even your adulteries and your lustful neighings [after idols],

And the lewdness of your prostitution

On the hills in the fields.

Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O Jerusalem!

How long will you remain unclean [by ignoring My precepts]?”

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness [an unexpected and refreshing delight];

I saw your fathers (ancestors) as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season,

But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shamefulness [the worship of Baal],

And [because of their spiritual and physical adultery] they became as detestable and loathsome as the thing they loved.

“I will throw filth on you

And make you vile and treat you with contempt,

And set you up as a spectacle.

I will take the blood from their mouths

And their detestable things from between their teeth [those repulsive, idolatrous sacrifices eaten with the blood].

Then they too will be a remnant for our God,

And be like a clan in Judah,

And Ekron will be like one of the [fn]Jebusites.