Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
"But the people took ... to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal"  (1 Samuel 15:21).  Saul, in this, was saying that he was only doing what God had commanded his people to do in the matter of offering sacrifices; but as Keil stated it: