Good News from Gaza -Judges 16:22

As we come to Judges 16: 21, we expect the story to end. We read the verse and anticipate verse 22 to give the sad epitaph of a failed judge. Instead, we read the tantalizing word, HOWBEIT. By this word, the hopes and imaginations of the reader are ignited. Suddenly, we realize the story has not ended, There is Good News in Gaza!