Thank you for bringing the attention of the readers of the Bible Support website to the fact that sometimes there is a back story to the information presented in the Bible which is very interesting, which the author (who is the Ever-living God) and the people who were responsible for editing the Hebrew text decided not to put into words.
When you have the funds, you could purchase a copy of the HOLY BIBLE: Revised New Jerusalem Bible: Study Edition (2019) Biblical text copyright Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd 2019, Translated by Dom Henry Wansbrough, Order of Saint Benedict, with the Notes and Introductions copyright by Dom Henry Wansbrough 2019. Then when you open that Bible on your Bible reading study table, you will probably notice that Henry Wansbrough provides notes that will help you understand the situation, as best understood by the university-trained scholars who convey traditional views in good and clear English.
Was God given any honor for having assisted them? Is this how a "king" should lead his people?
Jesus was never swayed by the public opinion polls and always did what was lawful in God's sight.
Saul stopped viewing himself as "a little one", since he was taller than the other soldiers, and did not regard himself as "a small one" under the tutorship of God's prophet, Samuel.
Compare Saul's attitude with Isaiah 60:22 "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time." That statement by Isaiah comes immediately before the reading that Jesus quoted when he visited the Synagogue in his childhood town, as quoted in Luke 4:18. So, was Saul truly a "king" who obeyed God's orders, during his first year of Leadership, and did he display real leadership and obedience in the second year?
1 Samuel 15:2 mentions "Amalek". Today it is Joseph Biden and his Vice President Kamala (the name is an anagram of Amalek with different vowels) who are plotting to restrict Israel from having "iron" weapons to be used to eliminate the Hamas warriors in their underground tunnels which are sending out rocket attacks from the Philistine area which is today called Gaza.