diff --git a/src/objects.cc b/src/objects.cc
index edd758370b..86fb22ae36 100644
--- a/src/objects.cc
+++ b/src/objects.cc
@@ -4276,7 +4276,6 @@ MaybeHandle<Object> JSObject::SetOwnPropertyIgnoreAttributes(
 MaybeHandle<Object> JSObject::SetOwnElementIgnoreAttributes(
     Handle<JSObject> object, uint32_t index, Handle<Object> value,
     PropertyAttributes attributes, ExecutableAccessorInfoHandling handling) {
-  DCHECK(!object->HasExternalArrayElements());
   Isolate* isolate = object->GetIsolate();
   LookupIterator it(isolate, object, index,
                     LookupIterator::OWN_SKIP_INTERCEPTOR);