Heb 11:30. Κυκλωθέντα) compassed about, without machines, LXX., Jos 6:6 (7). The faith of Joshua is virtually praised in this passage; and yet the miraculous arresting of the sun in his course is not mentioned, because there was to be nothing else like it in any future period: Jos 10:12; Jos 10:14.-ἐπὶ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας) for seven days. In other places many sieges lasted many years.