But they stop flowing in the dry season; they disappear when it is hot.
Now Elijah the Tishbite was a prophet from the settlers in Gilead. “I serve the Lord, the God of Israel,” Elijah said to Ahab. “As surely as the Lord lives, no rain or dew will fall during the next few years unless I command it.”
As heat and dryness quickly melt the snow, so the grave quickly takes away the sinners.
They are made dark by melting ice and rise with melting snow.
Travelers turn away from their paths and go into the desert and die.