Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 3:34

34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into setters : as a man falleth before wicked men , so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

Thou didst not tamely yield up thy self to Ioab, as his Prisoner, to be bound hand and foot at his pleasure. Ioab did not overcome thee generously and honourably in an equal Combat, nor durst he attempt thee in that way, as a General or Soldier of any worth would have done.

Or, before, i. e. in the presence, or by the hands of froward, or perverse, or crooked men, by Hypocrisie and Perfidiousness, whereby the vilest Coward may kill the most Valiant person. Thus he reproached Ioab to his very face, before all the people: which was a great Evidence of his own Innocency herein; because otherwise Ioab, being so powerful, and proud, and petulant to his Sovereign, would never have taken the shame and blame of it wholly to himself, as he did.

Marginal references: Heb. children in iniquity.