Exodus 32:25

broken loose… let them loose viz. from their allegiance to Jehovah, under Aaron's leadership: cf. for the word Exodus 5:4.

for a whispering (i.e. a derision: LXX. ἐπίχαρμα) among them that rose up against them] The expression is poetical, and may have been taken from an ancient song (so Ew. Hist.ii. 182). Their foes would deride, when they heard that they had deserted their national God, who they boasted had led them out of Egypt.