What is the significance of the attributes in our verse?
Makos 24a: Yeshayah gave six Mitzvos for people to focus on. It says about one who fulfills these "Hu Meromim Yishkon..."
Radak citing Targum Yonasan: All Tzadikim who dwell in Yerushalayim will have these merits.
Radak: These merits are proper for a king. Via them, his kingship will stand.
What is "Holech Tzedakos"?
Makos 24a: Avraham exemplified this - "Yetzaveh (Es Banav... La'asos Tzedakah u'Mishpat)."
Rashi: You asked "Mi Yagur Lanu
Brachos 10b says that because Chizkiyah requested in his own merit, it was attributed to another's (David's) merit -- "Zechor Na Asher His'halachti Lefanecha"! (PF)
What is "v'Dover Meisharim"?
Makos 24a: No one is pained by his words in public (Maharsha; Aruch l'Ner - if he must rebuke someone, he does so in private).
Malbim: He is straight in mindset and Emunos.
What is "Mo'es b'Vetza Ma'ashakos"?
Makos 24a: R. Yishmael ben Elisha illustrates this. (He refused to take Matanos Kehunah from a party who came for judgment, lest he deprive the Kohen who normally received the man's gifts.)
Radak: The Torah says that judges should be "Sonei Vatza" (Shemos 18:21). It says Vatza Stam, for they hate all money. Here it says b'Vetza Ma'ashakos - money of theft and oppression. It discusses the king. Kings need money for their armies and servants. He must strive for money that he is entitled to, and despise what he is not entitled to. Even though he has power to take others' money, e.g. to punish a person and force him to pay the kingdom, he despises such money.
Malbim: He despises gain that comes via another's loss.
What is "No'er Kapav mi'Tmoch ba'Shochad"?
Makos 24a: R. Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi illustrates this. (His sharecropper came to him for judgment, and brought to him the Peros that he needed to give to him the next day. R. Yishmael refused to take them, and disqualified himself from judging, since the man wanted to give early.)
Rashi: He removes [bribery from his hands].
Radak: Since he hates all money, he does not seek bribes, even to vindicate the innocent and obligate the guilty. He will not take even a gift from a litigant as long as the case is in front of him 1 .
Malbim: Kings used to take gifts. He will not, for he constantly judges, and perhaps the giver will come to him for judgment. Even if he would return the gift, it was like a temporary bribe.
What is "Otem Azno mi'Shmo'a Damim"?
Makos 24a: If he hears a Chacham shamed, he is not silent.
Rashi: Otem is sealing, like "Shekufim Atumim" (Melachim I, 6:4).
Radak #1: The king can kill those who transgress his command. He will kill only in judgment. If his household tells him that Ploni should be killed for doing such and such to you, he does not want to hear, unless it is clarified. "Damim" is inos blood.
Radak #2: Even if one is Chayav Misah, he pardons his sin, for it is hard for him to kill a person, unless it is to eradicated evil from the land.
Malbim: He does not accept Leshon ha'Ra about anyone, to the point that if someone tells him that Ploni rebelled against him and he is Chayav Misah, he shuts his ear and does not hear 1 .
Nidah 61a: One may not believe Leshon ha'Ra, but one must suspect lest it is true! Because Gedalyah did not suspect, a verse calls him a murderer! Perhaps Malbim means 'he does not accept it. (PF)
What is "v'Otzem Einav me'R'os b'Ra"?
Makos 24a: He shuts his eyes to avoid looking at women doing laundry (at the river, for they are barefoot). Rashi - Otem is closing, like "va'Y'atzem. Es Eineichem" (29:10).
Radak #1: He does not want to see any evil in the world.
Radak #2: He cannot see an evil person, like David said "Dover Shekarim Lo Yikon l'Neged Einai" (Tehilim 101:7).
Malbim: He shuts his eyes to avoid seeing evil, lest he come to desire.
