The musical instruments referred to ( Daniel 3:5; Daniel 3:7) also have Persian names. [1] Some of these instruments were Greek as well. The Greeks had an influence on Babylonia earlier than Daniel"s time. [2] These were various wind and stringed instruments. [1] The Babylonians seem to have been an almost music-crazed culture (cf. Psalm 137:3; Isaiah 14:11). [4][source]
"The story of the three young men who were thrown into the fire because they would not worship the image ( Daniel 3), brings to mind the great brick-kilns outside the city, where the bricks required for certain purposes in the vast building projects of Nebuchadnezzar were baked. Some of these great ovens were found in the [5] excavations. Worth noting in this connection is a rather Solomonic judicial directive of the ruler Rim Sin (1750 B.C.), which appears in a recently published document of the Yale Babylonian Collection. He speaks thus concerning four men of Larsa: "Because they threw a young slave into an oven, throw ye a slave into a furnace." Clearly, that sort of thing was nothing new in Babylonia." [6][source]
Other authorities believed the furnace was beehive or funnel-shaped and was constructed of metal. [7][source]
In the Tribulation, the Antichrist will command everyone to worship him and his image ( Revelation 13:3-18). [source][source][source]