Strongly laid. — “Thy foundation shall be laid” (Isaiah 44:28). The decree adds a word that signifies “with sufficient support.”
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Ezra 6:3
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;