After Baal-hanan died, Hadad succeeded him. His city was named Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel. She was the daughter of Matred, who was the daughter of Me-zahab.

Jabez enjoyed more honor than his relatives his mother named him Jabez, she said, "because I bore him in pain."

David later erected garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans were placed under servitude to David, to whom they paid tribute.

So David paid Ornan 600 shekels weight worth in gold for the site,