quarries.

Joshua 4:20
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

a secret

Judges 3:20
Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. "I have a word from God for you, " Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

2 Kings 9:5, 6
and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. "I have a message for you, commander, " he said. "For which of us?" asked Jehu. "For you, commander, " he replied. . . .

Acts 23:18, 19
So the centurion took him to the commander and said, "Paul the prisoner sent and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you." . . .

and all that

Genesis 45:1
Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, "Send everyone away from me!" So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.