Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
"Get you to the mountains   ..." These were the rugged hills that rise 1,500 feet to 2,000 feet above the Jericho plain within a mile or so of the city.  These limestone hills with many caves and grottoes were the very ones where the Dead Sea Scrolls have been discovered in recent times, only about eight or ten miles southward from Jericho![24]  Rahab had correctly surmised that the search party would go toward the Jordan River; or, was she familiar with the king's search parties from previous experiences?