Compare the marginal references. The words “cast him upon some mountain,” rather imply that they expected to find the prophet alive.
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2 Kings 2:16
16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strongc men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.