Contradiction with 1 Kings 8:9
This verse notes that there was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, implying the absence of other items mentioned in 2 Chronicles 5:5.
1 Kings 8:9: [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. [when the: or, where the]